Subversion Quotes

Subversion Quote of the day

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

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.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

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.

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

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

Subversion is what I do.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.

The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.