Quotes About Defiance

I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.

I'm representing my country whether they like me or not.

My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn't conform to any rules.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.

I'm not afraid of you, 'American Idol.'

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, 'Now, you know I'm right about that,' even though they're facing imminent doom.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

I'm incredibly defiant against neo-Nazis and skinheads.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6

Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

that a holy Baby, born in a stable twenty centuries ago, defies the wisdom of man. He cannot be defeated.

Some folk have to react against something: parents, siblings, government, society. They think they have free will, when all they doing is wilfully opposing.