Quotes About Defiance

No, I wanna go kick puppies," she retorted.

Just because you're playing without the rules doesn't mean they don't exist.

The modern moralists extol the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Forse la più grande consolazione degli oppressi è quella di sentirsi superiori ai loro tiranni.»

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Non sei che un vile, duca di Bourgogne, traditore del tuo re di cui lasci insozzare la dimora. Io ti dichiaro indegno di portare glis speroni di cavaliere...

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Valía más renunciar, porque la renuncia a la acción era la protesta misma y no su máscara.

qué cabeza cortar si siempre quedará otra más autoritaria. (Lucas, sus luchas con la hidra)

yo no puedo acercar los dedos a un libro, ceñir apenas el cono de luz de una lámpara, destapar la caja de música, sin que un sentimiento de ultraje y desafío me pase por los ojos como un bando de

Qué es la tragedia? Una inmensa, atronadora puteada contra Zeus.

Ustedes son basura, nada más que basura! ¡Unos pobres gallinazos sin plumas! Ya verán cómo les saco ventaja.

Let people of our time talk about these things with condescension as if they were anachronistic and antihistorical; we know that this is an alibi for their defeat. Let us leave modern men to their "truths" and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.

Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim.

We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about?

Our runaways may well be the backbone courageous among our kids: the ones who will risk hunger and forced prostitution and jail and death, in order to say NO to this overwhelming suffocation and victimizing, adult defeat into which they have been trapped, by dint of being born.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life

Do You Follow Me We are the wrong people of the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about

We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this rebelius world will never touch us. Ignoring death, pretending it will never happen, or that if it does, the great, kind, merciful God will overlook our years of defiance and whisk us off to some magical land where we can go right on in our wicked ways.

Everyone warned her that the U.S. was a difficult place where even the Devil got his ass beat

These days I have to ask myself: What made me angrier? That Oscar, the fat loser, quit, or that Oscar, the fat loser, defied me? And I wonder: What hurt him more? That I was never really his friend, or that I pretended to be?

Muchacho del diablo!

Dale un galletazo

We are neither the pawns of devils, nor the enemies of virtue. We are simply curious, pragmatic, and rebellious -- too curious to be timid, too defiant for morality, and too pragmatic to wreck shit "just because.