#defiance

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

— Gerard Way

#defiance #self-assuredness #self

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#basic #basic rights #carrying #court #defiance

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#defiance #harry-potter #scrimgeour #anger

I promised I will always protect you. You've been wounded badly because I've failed to keep that promise. [...] But I won´t fail you in this, Rachel. no matter what has happened. No matter what you've done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it. ↗

— C.J. Redwine

#logan-mcentire #love #science-fiction #whyyyyyy #young-adult

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. ↗

— Will Durst

#anxiety #back #comedy #contempt #creep

Some might think you suicidal." "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#eric-northman #sookie-stackhouse #true-blood #blood

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil") ↗

— Julian Hawthorne

#nature #nature

While he spoke, my very conscience and reason turned traitors against me and charged me with crime in resisting him. They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of his misery; think of his danger — look at his state when left alone; remember his headlong nature; consider the recklessness following on despair — soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his. Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do?" Still indomitable was the reply — "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad — as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth — so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am quite insane — quite insane: with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot." I did. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #independence #individuality #integrity #self-assurance

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. ↗

— Rick Kaplan

#almost #bow #defiance #statement #tie