Quotes About Defiance

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

If I thought anybody was messing with me, I was difficult.

A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?

There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.

We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

I have said what millions of people think and find. It is a travesty that I have to defend myself in court for this.

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad in all probability.

Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

Misery taught him nothing more than defiant endurance of it.

Uncork the cider...Sabbath or no!

Suddenly she aroused herself and exclaimed, But I'll shake it off. Yes, I will shake it off! No one shall know my suffering. I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay, and I'll laugh in derision! - Eustacia Vye

I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

You are taking too much upon yourself! she said, vehemently. Everybody is upon me—everybody. It is unmanly to attack a woman so! I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

There was a time when Starling would have deferred to these men. Now they didn't like what she was saying, and she had seen too much to care.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

A little rebellion is good now and then.