Quotes About Defiance

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

You don't go after what's mine. Now be a good boy and gut yourself." -Xhex, Lover Mine.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

I'm no good at being good.

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.