Quotes About Defiance

You are dust, her eyes said. You are dirt. You are nothing. Why do you bother surviving? Why are you still alive? I am the dust in your eyes was the answer in Hathin's look. I am the dirt that will bury you. I am the nothingness waiting to open up under your feet. And I can hold on longer than you can.

Mistress Gotely!" she shouted, her voice echoing blasphemously throughout the chapel. "Beth! Alys! Help me!" They would not come to her aid, she knew that. She was alone. But the other servants might hear her, and it would mean something to be remembered. She wanted them to know that she had not gone willingly or quietly. If they remembered that, she would still be something, if only a scar on their memories, a pang of guilt they tried to ignore.

Twig-minx!" it screamed. "scrap-brat!

Francesc Miralles

no aceptan las injusticias ni las limitaciones.

Fuck the begrudgers

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige... ...and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us... ...and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances.... We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

DO NOT TOUCH ME YOU VILE THING!!!

[Black Hawk] has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Slave driver, the table is turn.Catch a fire so you can get burn.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Julia dealt with rules the way she later dealt with vegetarians; she pretended they didn't exist.

I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

You're not supposed to have salt." "I'm not supposed to have cancer, either. If you don't bring me some brandy, I'm kicking you off my property.

Some of the benefits of swimming derive, ironically, from daring to come as close as we can to this very fight for survival. That's the sublime: the awe and the terror, together. Those moments of panic, the electric flashes of fear, are elucidating, exhilarating. The act of getting in is a small defiance of death itself.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.