Quotes About Defiance

when we passed the Hells Angels clubhouse they were giving cans of beer out to little kids. "Repeat after me," ordered a drunken Hells Angel dressed as a Viking warrior. "When I grow up I'm going to be a badass.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

And I myself woke up one day and realized all the people in my old life hated me… but somehow I didn't care. We each became immune to the Blue Plague, which labels all resistance as racist, bigoted, Nazi scumbags.

We could live, but they won't let us."]

Old women and cats do as they please.

Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me.

So get you gone out of my presence, miserable traitors as you are.

I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror

When boys called our names, we said 'Don't even say my name. Don't even put it in your mouth.' When they said, 'You ugly anyway,' we knew they were lying. When they hollered, 'Conceited!' we said, 'No- convinced!' We watched them dip-walk away, too young to know how to respond. The four of us together wasn't something they understood. They understood girls alone, folding their arms across their breasts, praying for invisibility.

Organic grow-your-own-granola food is not my style. When a style or a trend wants to impose a way of behaving on me, I do the exact opposite; I might even develop a particular fondness for potassium sorbate and sodium erythorbate.

Le cancre Il dit non avec la tête Mais il dit oui avec le coeur Il dit oui à ce qu'il aime Il dit non au professeur Il est debout On le questionne Et tous les problèmes sont posés Soudain le fou rire le prend Et il efface tout Les chiffres et les mots Les dates et les noms Les phrases et les pièges Et malgré les menaces du maître Sous les huées des enfants prodiges Avec des craies de toutes les couleurs Sur le tableau noir du malheur Il dessine le visage du bonheur

fond of offending his superiors and is fond of making revolutions has never been known.

You mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

And here is the alternative in which man risks himself, even if almost unconsciously: either you face reality wide open, loyally, with the bright eyes of a child, calling a spade a spade, embracing its entire presence, even its meaning; either this, or you place yourself in front of reality, defend yourself against it, almost with your arms flung in front of your eyes to ward off unwelcomed and unexpected blows.

SHORT FORM OF THE SERENITY PRAYER—FUCK IT.

I may be empty inside, hollowed and devoured by Oxana, and I may be alone and beyond redemption, but I will not be broken. Fuck them all. I will not be broken.

They feared Me because I feared Nothing.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Mais pour qui il se prend ce cabron ! Il va le regreter ce sinvergüenza ! On va la lui faire avaler sa putain de phrase dégueulasse ! On va lui faire fermer la gueule à ce burgués !

As long as you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day you die, no one's gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you'll make it. Just pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]

Put away that twopenny toy, you tit-sucking coistril, and show me the length of your blade!

Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch.