Subversive Quotes
117 quotes by 100 authors
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Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so…
— John Waters
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Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth…
— Anne Rice
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
— Anne Lamott
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I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy,…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
— Henry Steele Commager
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the…
— Lionel Trilling
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From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played…
— Winston Churchill
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You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and…
— Robert Harris
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
— Athol Fugard
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Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be…
— Amy Tan
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very…
— Jayne Anne Phillips
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Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of…
— Philippe Petit
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity,…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive…
— Bertrand Russell
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'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the…
— Unknown Author
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David Cross is one of the best comedic minds we have going nowadays. His subversive humor is backed up by his intellect.
— Jason Bateman
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