Quotes About Subversion

Real rebels don't put a secret symbol on something as durable as jewelry. They put it on a wafer of bread that can be eaten in a second if necessary.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Not fear of this responsibility but surrender to the fear is a chief contributor to the subversion of self-esteem.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote the following year, "the moderation and virtue of a single character has probably prevented this revolution from being closed as most others have been by a subversion of that liberty it was intended to establish.

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.

Human kindness is deeply subversive to totalitarian creeds, which seek to thwart all compassion toward those deemed unworthy of moral consideration, those branded as internal or external enemies.

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.

In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.

Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided.

I wonder if we're truly subverting anything, or if we're just playing with a loaded gun.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

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

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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Yeah, his being your friendly neighborhood drug lord, pimp, and enforcer really fit in with the Norman Rockwell routine. Totally.

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

My favorite part of going to a wedding is ruining the wedding.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.