Quotes About Defiance

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my BARBARIC YAWP over the roofs of the world

She was unlike most other girls of her age, in this—that she had ideas of her own, and was stiff-necked enough to set the fashions themselves at defiance, if the fashions didn't suit her views.

Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

If I lived in North Korea, I'd want my own army, too.

Cortana's eyes glowed as she bent forward. "Piss off.

To hell with you and your poetry — You will rot and be blown through the next solar system with the rest of the gases —

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me with a book or something. Take me for a ride with the telephone directory.

They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet.

Well, Kernel, they kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit, air they?

completely over. For an instant it resists

The Vietnam war was wrong, rotten to the core. But the military, the government, the police, big business were all congealing in my view into a single, opressive mass -- The System, The Man. These were standard issue youth politics at the time, of course, and I was soon folding school authorities into the enemy force. And my casual, even contemptuous attitude toward the law was mostly a holdover from childhood, when a large part of glory was defiance and what you could get away with.

What do you mean do I go around with narcotics signing petitions painting slop writing books full of dirty words with a beard?

She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care

Fuck it. Just fuck it.

I had a cigarette," Case said, looking down at his white-knuckled fist. "I had a cigarette and a girl and a place to sleep. Do you hear me, you son of a bitch? You hear me?