Quotes About Defiance

I do not, she thought, no I do not, give a damn. The Furies were riding across an uninhabited sky, to their own and no one else's destruction.

This protest, the rebellion, was a tonic.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

My smile is my way of saying: You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees!

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

You were not merely a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be forgiven. However

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

Who can refute a sneer?

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

I like your anger, ' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

Creativity is an act of defiance.