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Quotes About Defiance

So I want you to get all your friends to come to my place, tomorrow, after school. Five p.m. Tell them, anyone who doesn't come is not allowed to jailbreak anything ever again." He registered surprise. "You mean that if we come, we can still jailbreak?" She smiled and met Nadifa's eye. "Oh yes, my boy. We're not going to stop breaking the rules. We're just going to be smart about it.
~ Cory Doctorow
I would say, I'll meet you in Valhalla, replied Hiccup through gritted teeth. But I don't think you'll be going there.
~ Cressida Cowell
Bullies! Yellowbellies! Come closer and Toothless'll fry you to a frazzle! Toothless'll drag yer guts out and play 'em on a harp! Toothless'll... Toothless'll... Toothless'll... well, you just better not come any closer, that's all...! Oh, very brave, Toothless, said Hiccup sarcastically. If you shout louder they might even hear you.
~ Cressida Cowell
We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...
~ CrimethInc.
Quando li avrete ammazzati tutti, quando in Russia non ci saranno più cani, andranno i ragazzi russi a ficcarsi sotto il ventre dei vostri carri. Ach, son tutti della stessa razza, rispose tutti figli di cani. E si allontanò sputando per terra con profondo disprezzo. I like Russian dogs, disse Westmann they ought to be fathers of the brave Russian boys.
~ Curzio Malaparte
And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
He looked in humiliation, anger, wariness and misery at Connie. "Ma lass!" he said. "The world's goin' to put salt on thy tail." "Not if we don't let it," she said.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Dolores, please!" Grandma stood over my bed, her cheeks pinkened with exasperation. The graduation gown was draped over her arm. "That poor man has driven here specially to deliver this. He's waiting downstairs to see you. What am I supposed to say?" I stared at the TV screen in a counterfeit trance. "Tell that homo to mind his own business," I said.
~ Wally Lamb
Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid
~ Walt Whitman
I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
~ Walt Whitman
A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.
~ Walt Whitman
No tengo nada que ver con este sistema, ni siquiera lo necesario para oponerme a él.
~ Walt Whitman
I will not be outfaced by irrational things, I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me
~ Walt Whitman
Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong.
~ Walt Whitman
O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!
~ Walt Whitman
Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin
~ Walter Dean Myers
They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
~ Walter Isaacson
That's marijuana." It was one of the few times in his life that he faced his father's anger. "That was the only real fight I ever got in with my dad," he
~ Walter Isaacson
said. But his father again bent to his will. "He wanted me to promise that I'd never use pot again, but I wouldn't promise." In fact by his senior year he was also dabbling in LSD and hash as well as exploring the mind-bending effects of sleep deprivation. "I
~ Walter Isaacson
I'll just walk into Steve's office, pull down my pants and urinate on his desk. What could he say to that. It's guaranteed to work.
~ Walter Isaacson
Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel in this world." That
~ Walter Isaacson
He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.
~ Walter Isaacson
I don't give a fuck what you're trying to do or what you want. I'd send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.
~ Walter Mosley
As he offered to advance, she exclaimed, Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance!--one foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality!
~ Walter Scott