Art Quote by Blaise Pascal

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political…

— Leonard Cohen

“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up…

— Simon Reynolds

“The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of…

— Blaise Pascal

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous…

— John Stuart Mill

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want…

— Blaise Pascal

The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply…

— John Carroll

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who…

— Paulo Freire

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

— Emma Goldman

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

— Bell Hooks

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

— James MacGregor Burns

“Above all, the revolutionary group must divest itself of the forms of power—statutes, hierarchies, property, prescribed opinions, fetishes, paraphernalia, official etiquette—and of the subtlest…

— Murray Bookchin