The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Western teaching institutions that refuse to acknowledge today's taboos are by definition subversive. Tell the new zealots of Washington that in the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like,… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
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![“[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.” quote by Michael Moore](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dcd/michael-moore-884_desks_librarians-are-subversive-you-think-they_480214.png)
