Quotes About Defiance

Look at the face I don't have, Craven, and tell me if it looks like I care.

All the evil in the world is powerless against intelligence and courage.

he himself would have fought back. Not easy when you're naked,

There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of self-discovery. Tonally the individual voice is a dialect; it shapes its own accent, its own vocabulary and melody in defiance of an imperial concept of language, the language of Ozymandias, libraries and dictionaries, law courts and critics, and churches, universities, political dogma, the diction of institutions. Poetry is an island that breaks away from the main.

You would be extremely surprised how many living souls have become infuriated because you showed them that you're not weak or easily broken -MillYentei

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

My husbands will kill you,' screamed Draupadi. Jayadhrata

he won't let us use a dictionary. How's

I don't do drugs, I've never been arrested, and from what I hear, I'm not too shabby in bed. Not that any of you people will ever have the opportunity to discover that first-hand!

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.

Violence is the weapon of the weak. - Ralph Abernathy

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

The Orphan Master's Son

Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. Fuck them.

That the lie portrays the truth as lie is the ultimate possible rebellion. It is the abyss of the lie that it lives because it sets itself up as truth and condemns the truth as lie.

If the last thing a man has to hold on to is his sense of pride and accompanying dignity, then more likely than not he will expend every last trace of energy doing so.

Resistance is useless.

No pasarán [They shall not pass]!

The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.

Ser invencible depende de uno mismo. Ser vulnerable, del enemigo"».

Even then Jacky had a chance to save himself. The feds offered him the complete package—immunity, the program, the whole nine yards—to go rat on Pasco Ferri, but Jacky told them they could line up and suck his dick. So now a series of punks perform that service for him as he resides in the North Wing of the old stone house, plays cards, and cooks pasta for the guys on Sundays.

You don't let them knock you out, you make them knock you out. You make them break their fucking hands knocking you out, you let them know that they've been in a fight, you give them something to remember you by every time they look in a mirror.