Quotes about Defiance

You accepted like a beast of burden the whip of a stranger's curse and the mindless menace it holds along with the scar it leaves as a definition you spend your life refuting although that hateful word is only a slim line drawn on a shore and quickly dissolved in a seaworld any moment when an equally mindless wave fondles it like the accidental touch of a finger on a clarinet stop that the musician converts into silence in order to let the true note ring out loud.

And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This

Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph were forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be

Never tell me the odds!

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Be strong enough to stand up again, even after haters make you drop to your knees.

The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.