Subversive Quotes · Page 3

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more…

— Athol Fugard

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

— Carol P. Christ

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind…

— Richard Linklater

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

— Joanna Macy

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.

— Michael Azerrad

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

— Robert McCrum

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is…

— Henry Miller

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively…

— Judith Butler

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive…

— George Eliot

“Love is subversive, undermining the propaganda of narrow self-interest. Love emphasizes connection, responsibility and the joy we take in each other. Therefore…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language…

— Vern Rutsala

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that…

— Julian Schnabel

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question…

— Robert Fisk

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The…

— Ted Alexandro

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .…

— Florence Luscomb

“Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty…

— Carla H Krueger

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just…

— James Moore

Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or…

— Ram Swarup

This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society…

— Winston Churchill

“At first reading, these are stories about love and marriage and the conventional heterosexual happily-ever-after. Only at the second does a sneaky…

— Lucy Worsley

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…

— Lynne Truss

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good,…

— Harlan Ellison

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd…

— Thomas Dolby

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

— Louie Psihoyos

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and…

— Lisa Loomer

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.”

— Carla H Krueger

“What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that…

— Virginie Despentes

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

— Rene Magritte

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

— Bell Hooks

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen…

— Stephen Fry

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of…

— Deborah Eisenberg

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“When it comes to time, the perfect is a disarmingly subversive enemy of the good.”

— Laura Vanderkam

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

— Johann Baptist Metz

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

— Robert Mankoff

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive…

— Larry Fessenden