Quotes About Defiance

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.

I didn't listen to executives.

I will lay down and die before I take any drugs.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, 'To hell with three weeks.'

Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, 'You're not going to be able to do it.'

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

'Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.

I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

she knew that if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.

if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.

The Underground Peasant Movement adopted the slogan of As little, as late, and as bad as possible, and set about sabotaging deliveries

about 1,500 guerrillas fought back at every chance.

Kiddush ha-Shem, the principle of service to God, acquired a new definition in the Ghetto, where it became the struggle to preserve life in the face of destruction. A similar word arose in German—überleben—which meant to prevail and stay alive, a

Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This white waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said, 'That's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.' About that time, these three cousins came in. You know the ones I mean, Ku, Klux and Klan. They said, 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.' So I put down my knife and fork, picked up that chicken, and kissed it.

When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.