Quotes About Defiance

You can hate me for being a woman, you can hate me for being smart, you can hate me for being funny, but you hate me because I am doing something you could never do. End of story.

I do not want to belong to cinema history. I am a woman - I know I'm doomed anyway.

He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted

That guy, he has done some bad things against me. If someone is bad to me, I must be bad to them. You know why? Because if you didn't, that guy will think you are a pussy guy. And then he will be bothering you all the time. You have to go against him back, you know?

drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders;

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.1 —THOMAS JEFFERSON, July 5, 1775

conceived and held up to the angry

They can't shit on us," said Alex. "That's really what I'm saying. You can't shit on us anymore." There was a silence. "I just want them to stop shitting on us," said Alex. "OK," I said. "Sorry.

He was one man screaming at 10,000 people screaming at him. He berated and scolded and called his attackers hypocrites at first, all this made them even more incensed. But he didn't budge. He was a tireless defender of himself.

I respect only those who stand up to me, but I find such people intolerable.

Alfred believed that the real and the true were a minority that the world was bent on exterminating.

Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved.

The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!

I am the one who broke the rule. But I am the one who made the rule you couldn't live with.

The Uprighters called them names and promised them an eternity of agony in the next world for their eagerness to be comfortable in this one. But like Shmul S, the intestine-tied milkman, the Slouchers couldn't give a shit.

When the three of us, the three men named Alex, gathered in Father's house that night to converse the journey, Grandfather said, I do not want to do it. I am retarded, and I did not become a retarded person in order to have to perform shit such as this. I am done with it.

is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Siempre hago lo que me da la gana, fui voluntariosa desde chiquita

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

El prófugo espera la libertad. Entonces los mulatos nebulosos de Lazarus Morell se transmitían una orden que podía no pasar de una seña y lo libraban de la vista, del oído, del tacto, del día, de la infamia, del tiempo, de los bienhechores, de la misericordia, del aire, de los perros, del universo, de la esperanza, del sudor y de él mismo.

Panagulis, en 1973, la llevó a una colina del Peloponeso a ver tres letras escritas en la tierra, entre los árboles. Las letras eran OXI (que en griego significa «NO»). Cuenta cómo a pesar del viento y la lluvia, y del intento de los generales por desaparecerla con cal, las tres palabras reaparecían tercamente.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.