Subversive Quotes · Page 5

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

— Mark Zuckerberg

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

Creativity is basically subversive. . . .

— Dan Wieden

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

— Lydia Sigourney

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

— Marianne Moore

“I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”

— Carla H Krueger

I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.

— Eddie Griffin

“Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.”

— Carla H Krueger

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.

— Roland Barthes

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

— Erica Jong

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

— Philippe Starck

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

— Robert McCrum

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So,…

— Bill Mollison

I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if…

— Malcolm Mclaren

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial…

— Robert Bork

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests…

— Leonard Cohen

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the…

— Gillian Anderson

A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have…

— Chilly Gonzales

Ive never been a popular person, but it doesnt matter. I have everything in my life that I want. Im not a…

— Vincent Gallo

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that…

— Julian Schnabel

“Yossarian - the very sight of the name made Colonel Cathcart shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had…

— Joseph Heller

The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him…

— Richard M. Weaver

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to…

— Bat for Lashes

To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety…

— Zeena Schreck

There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the…

— Tom Morello

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…

— Lionel Trilling

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there…

— Michael Moore

The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father…

— Jeff Cooper

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

— Karin Slaughter

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

— Erica Jong

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

— Louie Psihoyos

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and…

— Lisa Loomer

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen…

— Stephen Fry

“When it comes to time, the perfect is a disarmingly subversive enemy of the good.”

— Laura Vanderkam

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

— Cornel West

“I'm not into abuse. It's a given that I'm gentle with you. You're a man, and not young anymore. - Hakuou”

— Bohra Naono

“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.”

— Carla H Krueger

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right…

— Barbara Ehrenreich