Quotes About Defiance

Faggots are the great immoralists.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

He called his horse Bicou, he called the child Bicou, and to hell with it.

I will take refuge in my real country. My country, my France, is a France that cannot be invaded.

1. Once again, my country, that country which is only an idea has not been invaded and never will be. 2. Pétain is not France. Pétain and Laval do not speak for us. Their word does not commit us to anything and cannot dishonor us. 3. The only right way to gauge this event must be in terms of the world. In the world, France has not been defeated.

But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

People called her wild, but she wasn't. Not really. She just didn't give a shit what they thought. Maybe that was what they found so unforgivable in the end.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing.

Abel," the chief shouted, "if you don't quit this letter writing, I'm going to have to take serious steps." "Off the end of the old dock, I hope," Grandpa replied as he slammed the door in the chief's face.

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.

our group was heading south, like a walking blasphemy.

Quando não há esperança, sempre fica o orgulho.

I am going to knock the slut out of you. And that should take some doing, you uppity English tramp!

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Lydia has a growing sense that her very humanity is under siege,

Surrealism is born of a consciousness of the derisory condition allotted to the individual and his thought, and a refusal to accommodate oneself to it.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

Car celui qui saute dans le vide n'a plus de comptes à rendre à ceux qui le regardent.

Never," he said, laughing.

don't wanna, don't hafta, ain't gonna'.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.