The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive. — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a… — Mary Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like,… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
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
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. — Herbert Marcuse 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
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening 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
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
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
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