Refusal to Comply Quotes

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

You try to force me to do a dishonorable act, contrary to the law as I see it, and against my conscience, and rather than do your bidding I'll suffer my right arm torn from the socket.... I regard you as a damn villain, and get out of my office, or, damn you, I'll kick you out.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

It was, 'If you don't do 'The Show Goes On,' your album's not coming out.' I had nothing to do with that record - nothing. I was literally told how I should rap on it. But I'm a bastard, 'cos I'll turn around and put it back in your face.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

We have to stop acquiescing even to the wording that the liberals use.

"What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

A lot of people wanted 'The Hardline, Part II,' and there was no way I was going to do that.

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.

No one man can give up the rebellion for any other man.

I simply refuse to play by the rules.