Quotes about Subversive

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. Votes: 3

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men. Votes: 3

There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before. Votes: 3

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way. Votes: 2

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. Votes: 2

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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 social activity. Votes: 2

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. Votes: 2

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, dangerous, or subversive. Votes: 2

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 with quick onward movement. Votes: 2

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them. Votes: 2

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream. Votes: 2

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing. Votes: 2

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture. Votes: 2

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 in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Votes: 2

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be. Votes: 2

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 without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. Votes: 2

My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not. Votes: 2

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 show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. Votes: 2

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 is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. Votes: 2

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. Votes: 2

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, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it. Votes: 2

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Votes: 2

I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music. Votes: 2

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. Votes: 2

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive? Votes: 2

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it. Votes: 2

All art is subversive. Votes: 0

Creativity is basically subversive. . . . Votes: 0

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. Votes: 0

I can be a subversive element. Votes: 0

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.' Votes: 0

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts... Votes: 0

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive. Votes: 0

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises, Votes: 0

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. Votes: 0

The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Votes: 0

What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow. Votes: 0

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. Votes: 0

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. Votes: 0

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. Votes: 0

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Votes: 0

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. Votes: 0

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing. Votes: 0

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive. Votes: 0

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Votes: 0

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. Votes: 0

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. Votes: 0

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. Votes: 0

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. Votes: 0

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. Votes: 0

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. Votes: 0

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. Votes: 0

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters. Votes: 0

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. Votes: 0

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings. Votes: 0

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive. Votes: 0

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. Votes: 0

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. Votes: 0

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it. Votes: 0

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us. Votes: 0

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. Votes: 0

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. Votes: 0

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive. Votes: 0

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. Votes: 0

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. Votes: 0

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future. Votes: 0

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. Votes: 0

I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation or estrangement. Votes: 0

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did. Votes: 0

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 years. Votes: 0

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality. Votes: 0

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic. Votes: 0

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 living. Votes: 0

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium. Votes: 0

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 dangerously subversive. Votes: 0

[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 with them. Votes: 0

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer. Votes: 0

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling. Votes: 0

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. Votes: 0

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. Votes: 0

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something. Votes: 0

I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out. Votes: 0

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction. Votes: 0

Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are. Votes: 0

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. Votes: 0

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. Votes: 0

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Votes: 0

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 fall of commercial dynasties. Votes: 0

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical. Votes: 0

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in. Votes: 0

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 subversive and very important. Votes: 0

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive. Votes: 0

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious. Votes: 0

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists. Votes: 0

Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome. Votes: 0

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. Votes: 0

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence. Votes: 0

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition. Votes: 0

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks. Votes: 0

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order. Votes: 0

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play. Votes: 0

...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 democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose. Votes: 0

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 censorship of not going as far as they might. Votes: 0

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question. Votes: 0

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other. Votes: 0

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too. Votes: 0

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them? Votes: 0

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 rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. Votes: 0

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow. Votes: 0

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, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible. Votes: 0

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 with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive Votes: 0