Quotes About Defiance

I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

If you want to underestimate me because I speak like a Mancunian, like the people I grew up with, then so be it at your peril.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.

If you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark; you can't blame the world for being unfair if you start on the path of the rebel.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become.

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate

It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can't shout

Never show your weakness before adversary.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.