Quotes About Subversion

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

Drag is all about taking references, taking pop culture and flipping it on its head.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. She

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her.

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.

Thousands of dedicated men and women in the intelligence community and law enforcement are working tirelessly to prevent the subversion of our democratic processes by Beijing, Moscow and Tehran.

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.

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.

I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young. It's for the poor, it's for the young.

Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.

It is nothing less than sabotage.

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How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

The year I snuck an interracial lesbian couple into the background of an American Airlines commercial, I was feeling particularly flush.

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. —Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way. I don't know where it came from, this urge to subvert. Perhaps it was what made him such a brilliant negotiator. He