defiance

I know the consequences, Manon,_ Ilyse conceded. __ know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

An Atheist is a person who questions every kind of authority, and this is the thing that is important. Because if we can, without blinking an eye, question the ultimate authority, god - who must be obeyed, then we can question the authority of the state, we can question the authority of a university structure, we can question the authority of our employer, we can question anything. So I think the primary thing that an Atheist is, is a person who looks at an authoritarian idea, or an authority structure, and says to that authority structure: from whence do you derive your authority and why should I be obedient to you? It appears to me that if I have human intelligence that this is enough for me to try to challenge whatever you're doing.

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

Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"__ot explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification__e are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild.

My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.

If they think they can stop me, I defy them to bring the best they have and I shall roast them over a pit of their own arrogant stupidity."--Maxis

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

Are the Trials starting?_ The girl claps her hands over her mouth. __'m sorry,_ she whispers. ______t's all right._ I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. __'m actually wondering the same thing. What's your name?___-slave-Girl._ Of course. My mother would already have scourged her name out of existence.__ight. You work for the Commandant?_ I want her to say no. I want her to say that my mother roped her into this. I want her to say she's assigned to the kitchens or infirmary, where slaves aren't scarred or missing body p

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

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

It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word "No". Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

Never apologize for correct actions.