Quotes About Defiance

Hispanics have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Come to that, the Irish and Italians and Jews also have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority. (Except the Germans, of course.)

I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

Christian name hell! I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

I rebel; therefore I exist.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

I've known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don't ask quarters.

I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

I would rather die standing than live kneeling

Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!

Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

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.

I'm a keep running through the red light living my life.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.