137 Quotes About Defiance

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to produce me, a conscious being, without my willing it?...

You are allowed one final statement, Mera of Xebel. It will be relayed to the Atlantean Council. Perhaps a curse upon our real? Or a loving goodbye to King Arthur?Mera: Surrender. Now.

… an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says, "You never told such a falsehood in your life, as you tell just now. Who can kill me? Me you kill, Emperor of the material world! Never! For I am Spirit unborn and undecaying; never was I born and never do I die; I am the Infinite, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient; and you kill me, child that you are!" That is strength, that is strength!

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A