Quotes About Subversion

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.

the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.

reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.

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

For two days, Welch outlined the danger at hand. Communist Party membership in the United States had expanded eightfold in the past two decades. (That was unlikely.) The Reds had a secret plan to devalue the dollar to cause economic collapse and societal chaos. The communists were sneaky bastards, he noted. They tended not to use force. They subverted their targets, creeping into political parties, churches, schools, labor unions, other institutions, and governments and

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)

Another thing to watch. The Brotherhood name organisations in a way that leads people to believe their aim is the opposite of what they are really there to do. For instance, if you want to run drugs without being suspected, do it through an anti-drug agency. If you want to destroy land and kill wildlife, do it through a wildlife protection agency. If you want to run a Satanic ring, do it through the Christian Church.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.

the way to subvert the dominant paradigm is to have more fun than they do and make sure they know it.