Quotes About Defiance

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face

I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die....

And you over there, the one always straying from the rules…we will come for you soon. (heart) You know…you can't live here anymore, don't you? (heart)

The rules say you have to be tall and thin and blonde and beautiful and not very smart and never want anything that you can't get from a man. So why the hell would I want to follow the rules?

I have decided to escape, to defy the shogun. Today I will begin walking the road to hell. But you will choose your own path. So, soon you may be seeing heaven. Choose the sword, and you will join me. Choose the ball and you join your mother, in death. You don't understand my words, but you must choose. So… come boy, choose life or death.

You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. 'Cause as sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people—better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Cheltenham, admittedly, is a bit far-fetched. Blues players from Cheltenham, there ain't a lot. And we didn't want to make money. We despised money, we despised cleanliness, we just wanted to be black motherfuckers.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

I don't regret nuthin...

When they play MARRY/FUCK/KILL, you'll never be KILL again!

An alkie in full defiant

The Essence and Character of a People, his overriding message was that Judaism is an "eternal countercultural." In his book, Hertzberg declares, "Abraham, the first Jew, is the archetypal Jewish character. As the leader of a small, dissenting minority living precariously on the margins of society, he defines the enduring role of the Jew as the outsider. The recurring themes of Jewish history—otherness, defiance, fragility, and morality—are present in his life.

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance… like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care any more about anything but himself and his dying.

Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!

absolutely rocking fucks,

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

Ne možeš imati dijete i ostati djevica....svaki put kada je Selma pokušala da ispri?a istinu o toj epizodi iz istorije svoje zemlje do?ekali bi je samo sažaljivi pogledi...i zbunjeni osmijesi...nisu joj vjerovali...mislili su da brani ?ast svoje porodice. Ogor?eno je shvatila da jedino pobjednik može nametnuti svoju istinu.

Tog dana vra?aju?i se iz hotela plaza govorila je sama sebi da je njen ponosni gest, koji bi Zejnil smatrao bezumnim, važniji za dijete od svih pelena na svijetu, jer smješteno u njoj tako intimno zavisno od nje ono mora upiti u sebe njenu pobunu i prkos.

He looked at me like I'm the delivery boy who wants to marry his sister. He then proceeded to make it very clear he knows what he's doing and I don't. It was relentless.

What have you done?' I whispered. She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance. 'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'