Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced: the old flag met his sight. "Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast. "Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast.  It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said.

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

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

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

I have not yet begun to fight!

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.