It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us. — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard… — Michael Dougherty Copy Share Image
“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language… — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
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