Subversive Quotes · Page 2

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

— John Spence

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

— T Bone Burnett

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

— Carol P. Christ

“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

“He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.”

— Carla H Krueger

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.

— Ted Alexandro

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

— Bell Hooks

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just…

— Eartha Kitt

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The…

— Ted Alexandro

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question…

— Robert Fisk

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

— Jean Francois Revel

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive…

— George Eliot

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively…

— Judith Butler

My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but…

— Sebastian Horsley

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,…

— Robert Harris

“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and…

— Judith Butler

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and…

— Rebecca Solnit

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just…

— James Moore

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…

— Lynne Truss

Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or…

— Ram Swarup

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

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

I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about…

— James C. Scott

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

— Johann Baptist Metz

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

— Robert Mankoff

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

— Emile M. Cioran

“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.”

— Carla H Krueger

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

— Alison Bechdel

I don't see myself as subversive. I just don't necessarily buy what people tell me initially.

— Colin Cowherd

What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

— Lucius Beebe

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

— Paul Johnson

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more…

— Athol Fugard

You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

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

— Nuno Roque