Subversion Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to… — Richard Dawkins
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. — Richard Perle
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance… — J. Paul Getty
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is… — Harold Rosenberg
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can… — Auberon Waugh
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in… — Murray Kempton
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of… — Gunnar Myrdal
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of… — Andrew Sullivan
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible. — Dario Fo
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. — Germaine Greer
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and… — Salvador Dali
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion. — Garrett Hardin
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion… — John Stuart Mill
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. — Bob Woodward
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of… — Thomas Jefferson
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The… — Brennan Manning

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