Quotes about Defiance

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Glanton could see crouched in a corner a Mexican or halfbreed boy maybe twelve years old. He was naked save for a pair of old calzones and makeshift sandals of uncured hide. He glared back at Glanton with a sort of terrified insolence.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

He looked in humiliation, anger, wariness and misery at Connie. "Ma lass!" he said. "The world's goin' to put salt on thy tail." "Not if we don't let it," she said.

Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid

O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.