Subversive Quotes

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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil,… — Henry Miller
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. — George Orwell
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. — Bertrand Russell
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and… — Gus Van Sant
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible… — Anthony Trollope
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive… — Raoul Vaneigem
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about… — Erica Jong
Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,… — Margaret Atwood
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and… — Alberto Manguel
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
The most subversive people are those who ask questions. — Jostein Gaarder
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real… — Anne Lamott
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary,… — Desmond Tutu
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess… — Michael Moore
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks
She had always been a readerâ€¦ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheâ€™d been caught… — Louise Erdrich
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. — Anne Lamott
It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was… — Stephen Fry
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. — Edward Said

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