It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as subversive. I just don't necessarily buy what people tell me initially. — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
“Love is subversive, undermining the propaganda of narrow self-interest. Love emphasizes connection, responsibility and the joy we take in each other. Therefore… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language… — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“When it comes to time, the perfect is a disarmingly subversive enemy of the good.” — Laura Vanderkam Copy Share Image
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard… — Michael Dougherty Copy Share Image
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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