Quotes About Defiance

Do not live bowing down. Die standing up.

If you're afraid to lose, then get stronger. If you want to protect those you love…then do what you have to do to protect them. If the hollow inside you is so terrible…then get strong enough to crush it. Even if no one believes in you…stick out your chest and scream in defiance!! The Ichigo I know…is that kind of man!!

They must be ignorant. They think this is enough to fill you with despair! They don't know the struggles you've lived through! Show them, Ichigo! That they cannot stop you with despair!

Che razza di mostro si è infilato in casa mia? Che tutti gli dèi e le dee mi faccian morire di mala morte se io non la faccio crepare di fame e di sete e di freddo

No, those few men and women who went against the establishment from time to time, only when necessary, were what ultimately made America great.

I know what you're doing," the wolf said. "This is advanced interrogation techniques, right? First you destroy my self-esteem and sense of individuality, then you force me to tell you where the pack hides out, so your woodcutter pals can come and slaughter us. Well, you're wasting your breath. I won't talk. I won't talk. Got that?

Actually, he hadn't just complained; she'd come home from school one afternoon and found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters that he sometimes had trouble pulling it out. When she asked him what he was doing, he explained in a calm and serious voice that he was trying to kill the book before it killed him.

Functioning in the face of any injustice disfigures you. If it kills you or drives you crazy, you are disfigured, and if you can contain it and channel it and work around it, you are still disfigured.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement. This movement of yours, does it have slogans? inquired the Chink. Right on! they cried. And they quoted him some. Your movement, does it have a flag? asked the Chink. You bet! and they described their emblem. And does your movement have leaders? Great leaders. Then shove it up your butts, said the Chink. I have taught you nothing.

Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.

Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided.

IF THIS TYPEWRITER CAN'T DO IT, then fuck it, it can't be done.

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

if this typewriter cant do it fuck it

They called her a disgrace to the nurturing traditions of womankind. They threatened to paint a mustache on her and shoot off her nipples.

Consapevole del fatto che non si sarebbe fatta vincere, che nessuna forza oscura, nessun potere avrebbe sconfitto la sua volontà di sopravvivere.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.