Quotes about Defiance

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.

I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.

I spit upon your God!

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Why should anyone be shattered by the thought of hell? It is not compulsory for anyone to go there. Those who do, do so by their own choice, and against the will of God, and they can only get into hell by defying and resisting all the work of Providence and grace. It is their own will that takes them there, not God's.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away