So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow. — Lucius Beebe Copy Share Image
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger 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
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
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
English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive. — Robert McCrum 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
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
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
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
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
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
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“At first reading, these are stories about love and marriage and the conventional heterosexual happily-ever-after. Only at the second does a sneaky… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling 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
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us. — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
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