Quotes About Defiance

I'm not scared of the president of the United States. And I'm not scared to stand up against the president of the United States.

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

I don't think I've ever hurt anybody. I think I'll stand up on the day of judgment and go, 'Yeah? So what?'

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.'

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

Only the man who says no is free

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

Evil man make me kill you.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

In order to exist, man must rebel.