Subversive Quotes · Page 3

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

— Bertrand Russell

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

— Jean Francois Revel

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Philippe Starck

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

— Mona Eltahawy

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Fay Weldon

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

If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will…

— Samuel Mockbee

You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence…

— Nuno Roque

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and…

— Henry Steele Commager

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and…

— Rebecca Solnit

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually…

— Bill Watterson

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to…

— Andre Holland

When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything…

— St. Lucia

When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a…

— Mike Royko

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

— Jeff Cooper

I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man…

— Oscar Arias

“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive.…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Joseph Heller

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage…

— Azar Nafisi

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

— Tom Morello

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

— Zeena Schreck

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

— Carla H Krueger

“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

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

— Erica Jong

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.

— David Bowie

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it…

— Philip Larkin

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

— Roland Barthes

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen…

— Naomi Klein

“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

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and…

— Anne Lamott

“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

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in…

— Philippe Petit

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive…

— Larry Fessenden

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

— Emile M. Cioran

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

— Robert Mankoff

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

— Alison Bechdel