Quotes About Subversion

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

I spend my days watching soap operas, eating bonbons and plotting society's downfall.

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

en Latinoamérica las constituciones se utilizan como instrumentos para subvertir el propio imperio de la ley

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Genghis Khan sought to further undermine his enemies by exploiting any internal social turmoil or rift he could identify. In

The United States was an empire not for the purpose of subjugation or exploitation, but for the aspiration of advancing the expressly articulated ideals of the United Nations, the Atlantic Charter, and NATO: namely, the right of nations to stand free from outside coercion or subversion of peoples to chart their own destiny.

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

ideological aim: to subvert the very concept and deny the possibility of virtue, and therefore of the necessity for restraint.

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.