Quotes About Defiance

Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate.

el encaprichamiento se crece con las críticas.

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might as well look you up this morning.

I'm turning off; rebelling against rebellion.

Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.

Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded. Such a man was Zola!

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.' - On Civil Disobedience in 1969

Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded.

If somebody tells you there's a rule, break it.

We stayed a step behind the three boys. Every once in a while they would turn around and look at us, wondering, I guess, why we were following them. Sometimes they stared openly at Ema. There may have been derision in their eyes, I couldn't say for sure. Ema was decked out in her customary black—black clothes, black hair, black nail polish, black lipstick. Tattoos ran up and down her arms and across her neck. I

Coach Bobby put his finger in my face. I debated biting it off—that always gets a man's attention. "You're a dead man, Bolitar. You hear me? A dead man." "A deaf man?" I said. "A dead man." "Oh, good, because if I were a deaf man, I wouldn't be able to hear you. Come to think of it, if I were a dead man, I wouldn't be able to either." The

Go fuck yourself," she said. Win rose. "Undeniably a better option than present company.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!

I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.

I'm not a tough guy, but I'll throw down just like the rest of them if I have to.

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.