Quotes About Defiance

To the executioner's axe there are those who kneel, head bowed, and await their fate. Then there are those who fight, who strain, who cry out their defiance even as the blade descends

Life stays stubborn until it has no choice but to give up, and even then it's likely to spit one last time in the eye of whatever's killed it. We're cruel in victory and cruel in defeat, my friends.

How much could be stripped from a people before they began stripping away themselves? The steep slope of dissolution began with a skid, only to become a headlong run.

Your days are numbered, you little ignorant peckerwoods." Monty Schaffer stood with feet spread, fists tightly balled on his hips—an angry man ready to strike. But instead of striking, he unholstered

the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

fragile. So that to be able to defy a culture which states that 'Thou shalt not touch this,' and to defy that with one's own creative powers is . . . the essence." The essence, of course, of the Hacker Ethic.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Good girls would certainly not want to read about them.

Listen, don't bother trying to resist Varian. He is stronger than you. Let him amuse himself.

Fight symbol with symbol.

Everyone who knows about us wants to keep us apart from you. Your own people work against you! They want to contain you and control you.

I will slither from his grasp. I will be like the Caradorean mist. If someone punches me, they will hit only air. I cann't be broken by force. I will bend and twist and float away. If he cuts me with a sword, I will laugh. If he cuts me with words, I will simply shrug. He will laugh at what happens to me at the fire pits and I will smile and shrug. It doesn't matter.

This is what I'm really like, what I've always been like. I'm just lucky because I've found a way around the injustice, the fucking unbelievable injustice of nature. You think the decaying body was me? You think the sagging tits, the slab shanks, the dried up old cunt, was me. No. This is me. And it's the same for every god-damned ancient bint in the world, whatever nature's done to them. Just remember that.

Scoff at me now, pretty boy!

We concluded they must have a proud and defiant streak within them, and must, in some ways, enjoy their precarious existence.

Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.

I can assure you that frostbite to any part of that animal's anatomy wouldn't delay us for a second. If she was unfit to travel I'd personally poleaxe her," Thirrin said with venom. Then she added as an afterthought, "And I'd enjoy it!

I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet

We were born between blood and gunpowder; and between blood and gunpowder we were raised. Every so often the powerful from other lands came to rob us of tomorrow. For this reason it was written in a war song that unites us: "If a foreigner with his step ever dares to profane your land, think, Oh beloved motherland, that heaven gave you a soldier in each son." For this reason we fought. With flags and different languages the foreigner came to conquer us. He came and he went.

Rin: "You realize you two are trespassing, don't you? This place is my territory, get it? And anyone who comes into my territory without permission...has to pay a toll!" Akira: "Toll...?" Keisuke: "A...a girl??" Rin: "Sorry to break it to you...but I'm packing!" Keisuke: "P-packing...? What? !@*?!!

a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes

I'm gonna kill them, Sam. I'm gonna find who broke you, who made you think and feel this way about yourself, and I'm going to f*cking end them, Princess." "I'm not your concern, Demon." "I'm making you my concern.