Quotes About Defiance

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

when your seven-year-old becomes defiant and calls you "Fart-face Jones" after you tell him it's time to leave his playdate, he's actually saying, "I need skill building when it comes to handling myself well and communicating my disappointment respectfully when I don't get my way." By misbehaving, kids actually communicate to us what they need to be working on—what has not yet been developed or what specific skills they need practice with.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may enter, the rain may enter, but the Kind of England cannot enter, all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Whenever I or the Sena make our views known, we are dubbed anti-government.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

I was only a village doctor with a rebellious streak.

In my village, people believed that women should stay in their homes. However, I followed my heart and showed them that I'll not succumb to their regressive ideals.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.

My favourite virtue is not having any.

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

When the world is telling us, 'We hate you because you're Asian, we hate you because we think you brought this virus to the world'... we need to kind of meet that with an equal and opposing force.

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'

For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - "our place.

I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.

I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?