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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
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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
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
The written word offered subversive possibilities in a dictatorship, offered some hope of freedom.
— Anjan Sundaram
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
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
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
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
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
LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE
— Ernesto Cardenal
Creativity is basically subversive ...
— Dan Wieden
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
