Quotes About Defiance

let me at least retain the right to decide my own destiny, to laugh at it, defy it, escape it if I can. A slave? Better to be a slave than a dog who thinks he's free as he trots along behind his master.

To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.

But by now anything was better than hope.

He felt indestructible because destroyed.

y pienso en lo que molaría un Dios así; uno que odiara a los putos cristianos, a los musulmanes, a los judíos y a todos los demás capullos que le tocaran los huevos.

Un tizietto in tuta mi grida dal pianerottolo in alto che non dovrei stare qui. E' la storia della mia vita. Sempre in un posto dove non dovrei stare.

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will.

Devers was morosely savage.

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

Váyase al carajo -Bueno, para allá vamos. Usted viene conmigo

Entonces supe que el coronel... y otros como él tienen sus días contados, porque no han podido destruir el espíritu de esas mujeres.

Uno de los más fornidos salta al ruedo. «Inche Caupolicán!», se presenta.

Váyase al carajo —balbuceó Pedro Tercero.

Eso de poner la otra mejilla siempre me ha parecido una bobada, sólo sirve para recibir una segunda bofetada

La edad no lo había hecho más sabio ni más manso, sólo más rebelde.

Patriarchy is imposed with aggression; it demands obedience and punishes those who defy it.

Pretenden que aceptemos su dios clavado en una cruz, dios de la muerte, que nos sometamos a su rey, que no vive aquí y no conocemos, quieren ocupar nuestra tierra y que seamos sus esclavos. ¿Por qué?, pregunto yo a la gente. Por nada, hermanos. No aprecian la libertad. No entienden de orgullo, obedecen, ponen las rodillas en tierra, inclinan la cabeza. No saben de justicia ni de retribución.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

Temple es una virtud apreciada en el varón, pero se considera defecto en nuestro sexo. Las mujeres con temple ponen en peligro el desequilibrio del mundo, que favorece a los hombres, por eso se ensañan en vejarlas y destruirlas. Pero son como las cucarachas: aplastan a una y salen más por los rincones.

Más valía morir en la rebelíon que vivir en la esclavitud

Defy, disobey, and disrupt is for young women who don't have the responsibility of motherhood, and for grandmothers who are past their reproductive years.