Quotes About Defiance

I would not be eaten, nor beaten, no skewered and swimmer I, no drowned dinner for a circle of cold companions, gobbling my guts, glutted on my gold.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

Nos hemos quedado jodidas en silencio, y en silencio nos han jodido.

What's Ixion? she'd asked him. He'd laid his face close to hers, whispering so their parents couldn't hear. Imagine a place where there are no Elders. No rules. No punishment. Only music and laughter and freedom. That's Ixion, Ret. That's me. Soon after,

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Freedom is not given - it is taken.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!