Quotes About Defiance

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, upon which I entered as a War of defence, has now become a War of aggression and conquest. The letter writer, Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, had just published a much-praised book of war poems.

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!

The weak will sometimes find ways to avenge an insult, even upon the strong.

L'attrattiva della letteratura, rifletté, consisteva nella sua indifferenza, nella sua totale mancanza di deferenza. I libri se ne infischiavano di chi li leggeva; se nessuno li apriva, loro stavano bene lo stesso. Un lettore valeva l'altro e lei non faceva eccezione.

If that is your God, Father Kamiano, your Jehovah, who would condemn a kind and tender man to hell for the sin of not believing in him—then I shall follow my Keo to hell, as I followed him to this one, and together we spit on your God and his heaven!

Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.

That weapon—is mine." Finn all but snarled his reply. "Come and get it.

and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.

None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!

Crux sneered. "That's an awfully big word for a thirteen-year-old." Valkyrie resisted the urge to hit him. "Actually, it's not," she replied. "It's fairly standard. Also, I'm fourteen. Also, your beard's stupid." "Isn't this fun?" Skulduggery said brightly. "The three of us getting along so well.