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Quotes About Subversion

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.
~ Colin Ward
J'ai fait un pacte avec la prostitution afin de semer le désordre dans les familles.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.
~ Zoe Quinn
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
~ Mike Mills
People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
~ Hayley Williams
Ça aime les auteurs déjantés, les artistes maudits et les putes dégénérées... Ça apprécie la décadence classée par ordre alphabétique.
~ Virginie Despentes
Elle aimait L7, Hole, 7 Year bitch, et d'autres trucs assez atroces, que seules les filles peuvent écouter
~ Virginie Despentes
I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.
~ Hanneli Mustaparta
If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.
~ Thomas Dolby
But Gedalah had something in mind. He sent four men to collect a dozen pumpkins, and he had them set in the pylons that supported the overhead power line that ran the train, one pumpkin to each pylon. "What are they for?" Mendel asked. "Nothing," Gedaleh said. "They're there to make the Germans wonder why they're there. We've wasted maybe two minutes; they're methodical, they'll waste a lot more.
~ Primo Levi
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
~ Rachel Cohn
Dev's out to pierce the pierced, tattoo the tattooed, and have his way with the messy punk boys who came to our shows not knowing they'll end up wanting to mess around with the guy challenging How big is your cocker spaniel? into the mic.
~ Unknown
I concealed the burned spot in a fold of skirt, thinking how odd it was that everyone regarded women as inherently harmless. Had I been so inclined, I could easily have burgled houses and murdered hapless families from one end of the Ridge to the other.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I report to the revolutionaries infiltrated among the counterrevolutionary infiltrators.
~ Italo Calvino
Noncommunist ranks must be infiltrated, penetrated, and subverted. The success of the communist mission depends on capturing the enemy's stronghold from within.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Espionage is utilized not only to secure information but also to weaken the "enemy" from within.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
This is the history of un-art—the cultural productions that are not intended to convey beauty, not organized around the notion of singular genius expres- sion, not designed to sooth audiences and to confirm the order of things. Un-art comes to unmake worlds.
~ Unknown
So what have you guys been up to?" "Nothing, worshipping Satan.
~ Daniel Clowes
4. Subversion The fewest moral regrets involved the Authority/Subversion foundation. A handful of people regretted "dishonoring my parents" and "being disrespectful to my teachers
~ Daniel H. Pink
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
~ Leila Slimani
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
~ Nigel Kneale
It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not give them everything they want. As a viewer, I think it can get pretty boring that way.
~ Karyn Kusama
Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.
~ Kim Young-ha
Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
~ Rachel Kushner