Subversive Quotes

117 quotes by 103 authors

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working… — J D Salinger
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and… — Bertrand Russell
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive… — Florence Luscomb
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense… — Dan Simmons
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive)… — John McGahern
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt… — Bell Hooks
Art is inherently subversive. Itâ€™s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. — Deborah Eisenberg
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,… — Judith Butler
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to… — Jane Smiley
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for… — Mark Pagel
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises, — T Bone Burnett
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by… — Mary Whitehouse
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive… — Samuel Mockbee
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. — Philippe Starck
English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive. — Robert McCrum
The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive.… — Diablo Cody
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only… — Oscar Romero

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