Quotes About Defiance

I will not be silenced or deterred.

I refuse to be silenced.

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'

Italy no longer wants to be a servant to silly rules.

We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Persian envoy our arrows will black out the sun... Dienekes of the Spartans..Good, then we'll fight in the shade.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

The enemy is Resistance.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

Resistance has no conscience.

Good. Then we will fight in the shade

Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.

Rooster was a bad slave. He had no use for anyone, not even the gods. Not that he was angry at the gods, like some I'd met. He just dismissed them entirely. There were no gods, and that was that.

You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

Resistance is the enemy within.

Xerxes does not want your lives, sir," Tommie called. "Only your arms." Leonidas laughed. "Tell him to come and get them.

Rest in peace, motherfucker.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart. If your notion violates every precept I've set forth in these pages, tell me to go to hell. Do what that voice says.

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death."   For us as artists, read "failure.