Psychology Quote by Simon Reynolds

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political…

— Leonard Cohen

“Passing from legality to subversion, the need of finding a minimum stimulus with a maximum effect appears—an effect that through its impact justifies the…

— Luis Camnitzer

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

— Edmond Jabes

The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply…

— John Carroll

“Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God’s project in…

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering…

— Judith Butler

“[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.”

— Mark Steyn

“The sort of individualism that scorns and fears connections with other people as threats to the self's integrity, and the sort of collectivism that…

— Marshall Berman

When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to…

— Michael Haneke

“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the essential support…

— Alan W. Watts

“Good type development thus demands that the auxiliary supplement the dominant process in two respects. It must supply a useful degree of balance not…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimised, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbours, stop…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón