“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion. — Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Copy Share Image
Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front… — Mike Gorman Copy Share Image
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage… — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently… — James Mill Copy Share Image
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“to Vaneigem and the Situationists who by shrewd use of collage and juxtaposition exposed both the poverty and richness of slogans, and… — Alexis Lykiard Copy Share Image
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as… — Edmund Burke 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
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion) — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about… — Armond White Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize,… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image