To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.
I've always been driven to buck the system.
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists.
I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.
It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of.
It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.
God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.
If you're going to take a shot at the king. You know, you'd better kill him.
My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.
What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.
It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.
Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me.
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.
When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"
