Quotes About Defiance

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

I do what I want, when I want.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

I never wanted to be in a gang. I didn't want to follow anybody's orders.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

In war, the first thing that goes, when you try to take over culture, is the statues. I think we all can recall statues with their heads cut off in museums.

We are the women men warned us about.

When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to create... we're groomed to be reckless in the defense of what we feel is right.

I don't wash my hair.

I can sleep on a bloody washing line if I want to.

O saar, beware! Beware the horde, The ones you never see. We build your lairth, Repair, invent, We do all this for free. You torch our hideth You crunch our boneth Kill with impunity, But we are not Tho helpless now. Our day cometh. We are free.

His beard was matted, and he was missing several teeth (his remaining teeth, emboldened by the extra room, had rebelled against the tyranny of standing in line).

was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.

no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth, Tearing up inside of me, Every day, every hour, just wish that I... Was bulletproof

You want me, well fucking well come and find me I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches And nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing