Quotes About Defiance

Lihatlah bajingan-bajingan itu mengencingi tanah kita. Mereka tak akan tertawa sekeras itu ketika aku berjongkok dan buang air besar di tengah-tengah Berlin. Mungkin itulah sebabnya aku tidak bisa mengeluarkan tinja. Ususku menunggu kemenangan.

They have decided nothing nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - Changes

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.

Once more we shall raise our heads high, for is it not better to live standing tall, than to die on your knees?

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Speak out, you got to speak out against The madness, you got to speak your mind, If you dare

Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan.

SOCRATES: You have? Oh – you said that you honour Athenians for our openness to persuasion. And for our defiance of bullies. But

Kore's personal arms were embroidered on the front—on a field gules, a vulture sable vorant a child—a black vulture on a red field devouring a child. Too gaudy for ordinary wear, but perfect for greeting barbarians at the gate.

When people ask what I do, I say: "I'm a teacher." or: "I proofread legal documents." or: "I hand out jalapeño humus dip at Trader Joe's." I say, to myself, mostly: "I'm alive, motherfucker. What else do you want?"

Still, most testimonies focus on creativity as a form of defiance—the dogged fortitude with which many attempt to pursue art, or music, or writing, or poetry, serves as an antidote to the pointlessness of their "real" paid work.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

You do know what the campaign against you is all about, don't you? Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out,

We'll never let him do that to you again. Never.

surviving. She's a fighter. A rebel, in a way.

And it relieves me to learn that you are not trying to make friends," the captain said, locking her hammerhead eyes on Ms. Price, "because no one likes you.

When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today.