Quotes About Defiance

He had already concluded that adults were contemptible, and that he could safely defy them. (Too bad, then, that he was destined to become one.)

Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.

Pero qué no ves que toda vida, toda creación en el campo que sea, todo acto de amor, no es más que una rebeldía frente a la extinción, no importa que sea falsa o verdadera, que dé resultados o no?

El amor, madre, a la patria no es el amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca

Benim suçum deÄŸil... Benim suçum deÄŸil... Benim suçum deÄŸil... Benim suçum deÄŸil...

un fátum implacable nos expatriaba, sin otro delito que el de ser rebeldes, sin otra mengua que la de ser infortunados.

I have lived in the monster [the United States] and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute man's patrimony, a person has the right to deal with the people who despoil him, like a thief who assaults us in the roadway. No qualifications, no exceptions.

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles at the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

To the destructive element submit yourself.

We are the strong ones. We squash anything that we don't like. Anything that threatens us gets smeared! (Grimalkin to Alice)

He twisted his head, opened his mouth wide, and lunged toward me as if to bite my head from my body. But I avoided those deadly jaws, then swung the hammer back hard into his face, smashing his front teeth into fragments and leaving only broken, bloody stumps. Few things have given me greater satisfaction!

I shrugged, put my hands up, and turned around, my back to Taylor. Bondarchuk scuffed into an orthogonal position to my left, just far enough away that I couldn't jump him.

Cars whooshed by. Somewhere nearby a dog was barking. A couple of girls in halter tops were smoking, which they couldn't do inside the Anchor. A gang of overgrown frat boys were jeering, and one of them was pissing in the alley next to the bar. The restrooms there were so malodorous that no one ever used them more than once.

Wi?c powsta? narodzie, i niech rozp?ta si? burza!(Nun, Volk, steh auf, und Sturm, brich los!)

pas les nazis qui m'épingleront à cinquante berges.

Un immonde vieillard essayait de suborner le pays. "Soyez sages, soyez lâches, enseignait-il. Oubliez que vous avez été fiers, joyeux et libres. Obéissez et souriez au vainqueur. Il vous laissera vivoter tranquilles.

Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict

Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

Allons, enfants de la patrie,Le jour de gloire est arrivé!…Aux armes, citoyens!Formez vos bataillons!Marchons! Marchons! Qu'un sang impurAbreuve nos sillons![Forward, sons of France,The day of glory has come!…To arms, citizens!Line up in battalions!Let us march on! Let the impure bloodof enemies drench our fields!]

What, us?" Squirrelflight's eyes opened wide and her tail curled up. "Never!