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What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow. — Lucius Beebe

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. — Oscar Arias

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. — Carol P. Christ

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

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

The most subversive people are those who ask questions. — Jostein Gaarder

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. — Wolfgang Tillmans

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. — Wolfgang Tillmans

[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. — Lisa Loomer

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing. — Ted Alexandro

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

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. — Larry Fessenden

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. — Marianne Moore

Love is in essence subversive. — Andrei Makine

Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that. — Amy Tan

He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment. — Kurt Vonnegut

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way. — Andy Goldsworthy

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. — Aldous Huxley

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises, — T Bone Burnett

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

Facts are subversive — I. F. Stone

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. — Philip Larkin

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

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. — David Bowie

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

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

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. — Thomas Dolby

The written word offered subversive possibilities in a dictatorship, offered some hope of freedom. — Anjan Sundaram

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. — Lydia Sigourney

It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time. — G.S. Jennsen

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

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

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

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. — Philippe Petit

Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart

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. — Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. — Tahar Rahim

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

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. — Edward W. Said

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe. — John O'Donohue

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. — Stephen Fry

The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us. — Matthew Syed

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. — Shane Claiborne

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. — Ronnie Gilbert

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive. — Michael Azerrad

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive. — Jane Fonda

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

I can be a subversive element. — Ulrike Meinhof

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement. — Os Guinness

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE — Ernesto Cardenal

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. — Erica Jong

Creativity is basically subversive ... — Dan Wieden

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive. — Mario Bunge

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. — Robert Mankoff

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

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.' — Petra Kelly

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings. — Alison Bechdel

All art is subversive. — Pablo Picasso

I'm not into abuse. It's a given that I'm gentle with you. You're a man, and not young anymore. - Hakuou — Bohra Naono

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. — Deborah Eisenberg