Quotes About Defiance

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

Never tell me the odds!

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

No one can take away your right to fight and never surrender.