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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

...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.

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.

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

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.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

I can be a subversive element.

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

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

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

[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.

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

Creativity is basically subversive. . . .

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

All art is subversive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

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.

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