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Quotes About Defiance

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
~ Sylvia Plath
Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
~ William Allen White
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.
~ Jeff Cooper
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
~ Malcolm X
You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Y.T. is maxing at a Mom's Truck Stop on 405, waiting for her ride. Not that she would ever be caught dead at a Mom's Truck Stop. If, like, a semi ran her over with all eighteen of its wheels in front of a Mom's Truck Stop, she would drag herself down the shoulder of the highway using her eyelid muscles until she reached a Snooze 'n' Cruise full of horny derelicts rather than go into a Mom's Truck Stop.
~ Neal Stephenson
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.
~ Neal Stephenson
I gotta say this," Scott says as the guy is sitting on his new bike, getting his swords adjusted, doing something incredibly unauthorized to the bios, "you look like one bad motherfucker.
~ Neal Stephenson
Godspeed? Godspeed! What kind of a thing is that to say to a fucking galley slave?
~ Neal Stephenson
I'd rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.
~ Neal Stephenson
is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.
~ Neal Stephenson
Carl Hollywood was appalled to realize that the only thing now standing between them and their three-decade march to the banks of the Huang Pu was Carl Hollywood, his .44, and a handful of lightly armed civilians.
~ Neal Stephenson
We don't have to satisfy him," Stan said. "We just have to be able to look him in the eye when we're telling him to fuck off.
~ Neal Stephenson
If you posture defiantly, it tells me that you have not learned the skill of recognizing when you are running awry, and correcting yourself. And you must leave my house in that case, for such people only go further and further astray until they find destruction. But if you take this opportunity to consider where you have gone wrong, and to adjust your course, it tells me that you shall do well enough in the end.
~ Neal Stephenson
if any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn't work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because you'll probably do a neater job of it than the Fascists will.
~ Neal Stephenson
Odessa Jones probably had ancestors who, like him, were rootless white trash, but who had picked up rifles and gone North to fight the Yankees anyway, not because they believed in slavery but because they were incensed that the Northerners refused to stay at home and mind their own business.
~ Neal Stephenson
Y.T. is maxing at a Mom's Truck Stop on 405, waiting for her ride. Not that she would ever be caught dead at a Mom's Truck Stop. If, like, a semi ran her over with all eighteen of its wheels in front of a Mom's Truck Stop, she would drag herself down the shoulder of the highway using her eyelid muscles until she reached a Snooze 'n' Cruise full of horny derelicts rather than go into a Mom's Truck Stop.
~ Neal Stephenson
His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought.
~ Neal Stephenson
Not just in matters of sexuality, but in all of life, never, ever, ever, fail to do something simply because it might violate someone else's standards of propriety. If I had one bumper sticker on my car, it would read: VIOLATE PROPRIETY I would certainly put such a sign in every bedroom.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I'm a guy like this, Gino explained to Jeanie; I like anythin' against the odds. I don't like nothin' safe. I'm a guy like this too: I don't like gettin' caught. But mostly I'm a guy like this: I don't like gettin' laughed at.     He lived as he drove, as he gambled and as he loved: for keeps. Taking no man's laughter. And letting the small stakes go.
~ Nelson Algren
American literature isn't anybody phoning to anybody or anybody writing about anybody. American literature is the woman in the courtroom who, finding herself undefended on a charge, asked, 'Isn't anybody on my side?' It's also the phrase I used that was once used in court of a kid who, on being sentenced to death, said, 'I knew I'd never get to be twenty-one anyhow.
~ Nelson Algren
Hoje, o sujeito prefere que lhe xinguem a mãe e não o chamem de reacionário.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Set down among these lice, this is how I keep the mold from my brain and find release from Fortune's malice. I am content to have her beat me down this way to see if she won't become ashamed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.
~ Nicholas Sparks