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Quotes About Defiance

Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance.
~ Michael Wolff
But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it. Not a single attribute would place him credibly in the revered circle of American presidential character and power.
~ Michael Wolff
fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies.
~ Michael Wolff
Every word written is a victory against Death.
~ Unknown
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
~ Michel Faber
Where there is power, there is resistance.
~ Michel Foucault
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
~ Michel Foucault
Bruno ochi È™i arunc? din toate puterile. Piatra se sf?râm? de zid, ratând de puÈ›in capul reptilei. — ?erpii au locul lor în natur?..., observ? Hipiotul-C?runt cu o anume severitate. — Natura, ah! M? È™terg la cur cu ea, b?trâne! M? cac în freza ei! Bruno era din nou furios. — Natur? de c?cat... M? fut în ea de natur?!... morm?i el furios timp de vreo câteva minute.
~ Michel Houellebecq
je n'aurais peut-être pas fait grand-chose de bien dans ma vie, mais au moins j'aurais contribué à détruire la planète – et je sabotais systématiquement le programme de tri sélectif mis en Å"uvre par le syndic de l'immeuble en balançant les bouteilles de vin vides dans la poubelle réservée aux papiers et emballages, les déchets périssables dans le bac de collecte du verre.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Obviously they had no autonomy, but as they say in English, fuck autonomy.
~ Michel Houellebecq
En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado.
~ Michel Houellebecq
le monde en général et deux membres de sa famille en particulier allaient voir qui il était et quelles que fussent leurs réactions il allait rester comme il avait décidé qu'il serait à tout jamais, dérangeant, provocateur et, s'il le fallait, seul.
~ Michel Tremblay
Our enemies weren't about to give us even an inch.
~ Unknown
not standing there and taking it, being subservient to and trying to gain the acceptance of the bully. It means fighting back.
~ Unknown
I refuse to learn your name. Does that not offend you?" "Nope." Well. That was all the argument he had. No sense in conjuring false reasons to display a morality he did not possess.
~ Unknown
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. —MARIE ANTOINETTE
~ Michelle Moran
My people," she began formally. "Main Jhansi nahin doongi!
~ Michelle Moran
You can tell this lady to bite me,though," Darrak added. "And she can take that holier-than-thou attitude of hers and shove it right under her granny panties.
~ Unknown
I gritted my teeth. "I don't like you." "My heart is breaking." "Screw you." He shrugged and then grimaced as if the wound on his shoulder caused him massive pain. "We can do that, too, if you like, but I'll need to be unchained first. Then again, we can bring the chains with us if you're into that sort of thing.
~ Unknown
Her eyes narrowed. "Bite me." I smirked at her. "Yeah, I bet you'd like that, wouldn't you?
~ Unknown
You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?' 'Stop talking like you're two hundred years old. You're sixteen, just like me.
~ Unknown
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
~ Miguel de Unamuno