Quotes About Defiance

I ain't scared of you motherfuckers!

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Old Man, right (sighing): Death to the fascists!

Epitaph Den Tigern ertrann ich Die Wanzen nährte ich Aufgefressen wurde ich Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

Aquele que não cedeu foi abatido. O que foi abatido não cedeu.

What's left of me is not afraid of lead - Roma

When the Regime commanded the unlawful books to be burned, teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires. Then a banished writer, one of the best, scanning the list of excommunicated texts, became enraged: he'd been excluded! He rushed to his desk, full of contemptuous wrath, to write fierce letters to the morons in power — Burn me! he wrote with his blazing pen — Haven't I always reported the truth? Now here you are, treating me like a liar! Burn me!

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a white man approached and shouted: 'Get off!' It never occurred to him that he was achieving the opposite of his dreams of superiority and had become a living object of contempt, that human beings, when they are human, dare not conduct themselves in such ways.

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.

Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.

Whatever police the world may prescribe to rule the soul, I refuse to obey them.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Drown, your heart stops. Take a bullet to the brain, your heart stops. Get the holy living hell beat out of you while you sit duct-taped to your wheelchair, your heart stops.

Carry on, please. Women don't usually take a skillet to his head and I'm anxious to witness it,

Although the law may never reflect it, we are not less in any way, and I refuse to believe that I am simply because others do.

I always liked playing the villain and the saboteur. Sometimes that even means I sabotage myself, but somehow I'm still here.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.

What right does it have, death? When I meet it, I'll give it the finger. Best I can do.

Freebird, the mantra of the moron.

I want my rockstars dead.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!