Quotes About Subversion

It's just, honey, Cinderella doesn't really do anything.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

There's no real samizdat in the U.S. per se, First Amendment-wise, I don't think. I suppose ultra-radical Quebecois and Albertan stuff could be considered O.N.A.N.ite samizdat.

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

Let's not sit around and give each other hand-jobs.

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

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously;

Riegl also solved a paradox of academic doctrine, wedded to the ideal: its tendency to summon its own subversion by reality, or by lowly life. Now that the story line is the movement from touch-based art to vision-based art, the future is open-ended, for art can always be further intellectualized without worrying about a surfeit of sublimity or transcendence, just as low subject matter does not threaten to drag art back into the weeds of practical life.

Andaikan Pope berangkat dari pangkalan Inggris atau Amerika, apakah kami tidak patut marah dan mengutuk negara-negara imperialis yang mencoba hendak mengadakan subversi di negeri kami?

Human legs, Annie, are always too short, toes never fit, and people are thankfully almost always totally preoccupied with either subversion, defiance or escape.

The world of immediate experience?the world in which we find ourselves living?must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

Main gangu teli ko doon raj,Gadhon ke sar pe rakh doon taj (I'll make the laziest person as the king, I'll place the crown on the heads of donkeys)

All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.