Subversive Quotes

“LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE”

— Ernesto Cardenal

I can be a subversive element.

— Ulrike Meinhof

“Shame comes in different doses.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Facts are subversive”

— Anonymous

All art is subversive.

— Pablo Picasso

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

— Mark Zuckerberg

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

— Jostein Gaarder

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

— Carla H Krueger

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

— Ted Alexandro

“Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”

— Carla H Krueger

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

— Petra Kelly

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

— Carla H Krueger

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

— Tahar Rahim

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is…

— Henry Miller

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

[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

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

“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

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

“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

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a…

— Mary Whitehouse

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

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

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

Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,…

— Craig Lancaster

“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

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

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In…

— Alison Lurie

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

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

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

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.…

— Winston Churchill

“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

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

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .…

— Florence Luscomb

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

— Ram Swarup

I think the best pop is always subversive in its nature.

— James Righton

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.

— Hunx