Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man… — Oscar Arias 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
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I went from doing something that was very original, sort of subversive, and specific in its voice - The Grinder - and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
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