Quotes About Defiance

The words hung there, a declaration, a taunt. You can't stop me!

Arturus looked at Peretur as though looking at an enemy, through his visor.

I could probably beat you at pool." She tucked a strand of hair behind her golden ear. "No, you couldn't." "I beat you at darts." "We're getting off the subject." "You just hate being beaten." "Call it one of my imperfections.

Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

Every rebellion against the order of man is noble, so long as it does not disguise rebelliousness against the order of the world.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

Soha életemben nem követtem el b?nt - mondtam határozottan - Mi másért lenne ide bezárva, minthogy b?nt követett el? Éppen az bizonyítja, hogy b?nös, hogy itt van.

Well, I was wrong!' Mrs Badger snapped. 'And I don't want you to say another word against Retsnom – do you

They tell me I should squeeze my hopes into a miniature box of their design. But I'm not so inclined.

How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose? - I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for?

How dare you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?

Admirable." Translation: Slut. "I'm confident you could have ripped the vampire's heart out with no help from Sir Conall. You would never need a hero to rescue you." Translation: Amazon.

If we are all bad women, then patriarchy had better watch out.

ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet! LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You're making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We've all got lungs. Let's use them! Let's shriek like mad! Let's enjoy ourselves!

LEO MERCURÉ: The Daily Express says (the play)'s disgusting. GILDA: We should be cut to the quick if it said anything else.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." [ Commencement Address , Wellesley College, 1996]

He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Moreover, if we move in the direction of making machines which learn and whose behavior is modified by experience, we must face the fact that every degree of independence we give the machine is a degree of possible defiance of our wishes. The genie in the bottle will not willingly go back in the bottle, nor have we any reason to expect them to be well disposed to us.

Before the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe had things their own way. They had won in Spain, in Poland, in Belgium, in France. Over Britain, for the first time, they came up against something they couldn't beat. It was not easy for them to understand that.

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.