Subversion Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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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
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
— Richard Perle
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...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
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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
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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
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...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
— William J. Clinton
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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
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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
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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
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
— Dario Fo
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it...
— Harold Rosenberg
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
— Germaine Greer
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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
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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
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
— Garrett Hardin
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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
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Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
— Bob Woodward
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[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
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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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