The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I went from doing something that was very original, sort of subversive, and specific in its voice - The Grinder - and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing… — John Waters Copy Share Image
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can… — Hector Elizondo Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
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