Subversion Quotes

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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. — Hal Borland
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or… — Leonard Cohen
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and… — Benito Mussolini
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's… — Armond White
My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle… — Barbara Jordan
We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence â€”… — John F. Kennedy
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an… — Galileo Galilei
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the… — Earl Warren
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a… — John Knox
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to… — Janet Burroway
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine… — Steve Almond
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion) — Edmond Jabes
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for… — Brian Ferneyhough
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do… — Robert Bringhurst
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door. — Mike Gorman
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as… — Edmund Burke
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. — Barbara Jordan
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the… — Fidel Castro
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of… — Nadine Gordimer
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for… — Daniel L. Akin

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