Quotes About Defiance

Anyone who tries to put fear in a heart, has lost their heart to fear.

Si lo que desea hacer es correcto, y si cree en eso, ¡adelante, hágalo! Lleve a cabo su sueño, y no haga caso de lo que digan los "demás" si sufre una derrota temporal, ya que tal vez los "demás" no saben que cada fracaso lleva consigo la semilla de un éxito equivalente.

didn't care what my parents (and grandfather) thought of me.

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

The world's law was no law for her mind

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

By spring 1945, the time for action looked imminent. Nazi Germany was collapsing, and the march into Berlin would soon cut off the head of the snake. Throughout Norway, the sabotage of railway transports, ports, ships, and communication lines was hobbling the Wehrmacht and obstructing the removal of its troops to reinforce their defenses inside Germany itself.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand.

Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end. Avalon scowled at him. You can't do that. Try me, Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. One in five.

She points to the door. Leave! No. So she picks up a hairbrush and throws it at him. It beans him on the head and ricochets to the wall, where it wedges behind the TV. Ow! He grabs his head, grimacing. That hurt! Good, it was supposed to.

If you say, 'May the Fork be with you,' I'll smash you with the other half of this hanger.

How do you dream of a future when you're not supposed to have one? How do you keep going when the world has disowned you?- -I keep reminding myself that I'm right, and the world is wrong.- -But how do you know?- -I believe. I don't have your kind of faith, but I got faith in myself...-

Can I throw you under a truck some other time.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. —Albert Camus

I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a brave new world but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

I began to recognize something in humanity that was ephemeral and hard to quantify, but definitely there. Simply put, humanity had a need to be bad. Not everyone, of course—but I calculated that 3 percent of the population could only find meaning in life through defiance. Even if there was no injustice in the world left to defy, they had an innate need to defy something. Anything.

5) YOU ARE BETTER THAN THOSE WHO WOULD UNWIND YOU. RISE TO THE OCCASION.

No one rages against the system anymore. At most, they just glare at it a bit.

suppose I could have found ways to medicate it away— but I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a "brave new world" but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

Besides, eventually even the most defiant of unsavories will settle. I have noticed a trend that by the time most of them turn a few corners, they relax into a kinder, gentler sort of defiance. Bit by bit, they come to appreciate inner peace. Which is as it should be. In time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.