To write well consists of continuously making small…

Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire…

— Janet Burroway

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

— William J. Clinton

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting…

— David Byrne

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

— Mike Gorman

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the…

— John Cusack

Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and…

— John le Carre

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert…

— Nuno Roque

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations…

— Gunnar Myrdal

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to…

— Galileo Galilei

“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up…

— Simon Reynolds

“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they…

— Auberon Waugh

“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that…

— Zeena Schreck