Subversive Quotes
117 quotes by 103 authors
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it…
— Robert Bork
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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
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing…
— Lionel Trilling
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I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated…
— Oscar Arias
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is…
— Bertrand Russell
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All art is subversive.
— Pablo Picasso
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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
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Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
— Joanna Macy
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
— Roland Barthes
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Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.
— Johann Baptist Metz
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In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle,…
— Guillaume Faye
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Ive never been a popular person, but it doesnt matter. I have everything in my life that I want. Im not a walking publicity stunt.…
— Vincent Gallo
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To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream…
— Dominique Venner
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Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
— Carol P. Christ
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.…
— Alison Lurie
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
— Edward Abbey
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Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something…
— Pauline Kael
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
— Alison Bechdel
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