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Quotes About Defiance

Resistance to oppression is second nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?
~ Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
~ Françoise Mauriac
Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature.
~ Cutter Nick
Human being is the only creature I found ho does everything he is not suppose to do.
~ Srinivas Shenoy
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
~ Nathan Hale
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
~ Huey Newton
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
~ Ralph Abernathy
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
~ William Wallace
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
~ Emiliano Zapata
I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
~ Kathleen Hanna
Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.
~ Puff Daddy
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
~ Simone Weil
If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.
~ Che Guevara
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
~ Sitting Bull
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
~ Mary Deasy
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
~ Sitting Bull
I Will Follow AnyoneAnd Ask EveryoneTo Stand Together As One Civilisation Against Terrorism
~ Widad Akreyi
When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.
~ Jodie Foster
Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.
~ Christopher Titus