Quotes About Defiance

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees." "You have a way with mental imagery, General

Are you insane? You can't just barge into my office and tell people to fuck off.""And yet here I am," Kiva said. "In your office. Telling this extraneous dimwit to fuck off.

Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

He held the apple box against his chest. And then he leaned over and set the box in the stream and steadied it with his hand. He said fiercely, Go down an' tell 'em. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell 'em that way. That's the way you can talk. Don' even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain't gonna find out. Go on down now, an' lay in the street. Maybe they'll know then.

When shoes and clothes and food, when hope is gone we'll all have the rifle.

You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you

On'y way you gonna get me to go is whup me.' She moved the jack handle gently again. 'An' I'll shame you, Pa. I won't take no whuppin', cryin' an' a-beggin'. I'll light into you. An' you ain't so sure you can whup me anyways. An' if ya do get me, I swear to God I'll wait till you got your back turned, or you're settin' down, an' I'll knock you belly-up with a bucket. I swear to Holy Jesus' sake I will.

I don't aim to starve to death before I kill the man that's starving me.

he felt himself hopelessly outnumbered.

E nei loro occhi cresce il furore. Nell'anima degli affamati i semi del furore sono diventati acini, e gli acini ormai grappoli maturi per la vendemmia.

My old man didn't want me to read. He said I'd desert my own people. But I read anyway.

a world soul he believes can resist the deadening assaults of modern corporate conformism.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

He showed the world what can be done against the odds, against a superpower. He showed -- and this is where Vietnam and Iraq come in, that in a war between an imperialist occupier and the people who actually live there, the people will eventually prevail. They know the terrain. They have more at stake. They have nowhere else to go.

What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.

Resistance is futile.

You bastard, stop that whistling and fight me like a man!

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

Sanity is for the weak

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.