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Defiance Quotes


"We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously."


"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"


"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."


"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse."


"You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought."


"Those who have been insulted by ungodliness and injustice could be in a good or better position to stand for or with those that are being insulted by the same."


"Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile."Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!"



"If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible."


"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."


"Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop."


"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"


"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."


"You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore."


"I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on."


"There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt."



"We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we've been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!"


"Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie."


"I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday."


"We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun."
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