Quotes About Defiance

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When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. Stand up and die game! Do not add one lunacy to another. Do not add your weakness to the evil that is going to come. That is all I have to say to the world.

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

The bad idea won't go to jail, and it keep fighting back.

You may hate the impossible, but the impossible doesn't care.

Carmen will always be free.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

You're queer, I'll kill you.' I could only ask if the speaker wanted an appointment.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

righteous indignation.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people's plans for her should prevail yet again.

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.

I let everyone know that I don't follow any restrictions, and suffer everyone's contempt in silence.

Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence.

No, I don't want to be completed. I prefer to try outrunning whatever's after me. I prefer to stay out, like kids on a summer evening stay out, and won't come in when they're called. I don't want to go in.

But I was so sure of myself. I believed I could manage my own life. Mud might spatter and spoil other skirts, but not mine. Somehow I believed no harm could come to me because I meant no harm to others. I was defiant and proud because I felt too sure of myself.' "'You are not the first to make that mistake,' he answered gravely. 'We all believe our lives are our own till we find we cannot separate them from other lives.'" -p. 300

They shan't humiliate me to please themselves.

You're going to listen to me; and if you get ugly like you said, I'll become your worst nightmare.' 'Too late, buttercup. You became my worst nightmare years ago