Quotes About Subversion

We are tampered with, our opinions manufactured for us, all without our permission. What was the purpose of these behavior modifications? It was to bring about forced changes to our way of life, without our agreement and without even being aware of what was taking place.

Arrest the meek! Reward the obnoxious!

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

That women talked back in a time when they were increasingly expected to be submissive is a point to which we shall return.

If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, 'No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not? It's just more fun to have a sexy chameleon or a blue-tongued skink or whatever. I don't know how subversive that is, but it's fun for me.

I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.

When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.

Didn't the secret police know the exact aroma and chemical composition of every subversive fart in Greece?

the Viper who had plans to invade America from within. Using money as a weapon, he controlled newspaper, radio and recording businesses to further his propaganda efforts and incite an internal rebellion.

Knowledge of the facts of Bob's life and death changes nothing in the world. Our celebrating his life and grieving over his death, however, will. Good cheer and mournfulness over lives other than our own, even wholly invented lives - no, especially wholly invented lives - deprive the world as it is of some of the greed it needs to continue to be itself. Sabotage and subversion, then, are this book's objectives. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

He said, Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

I break into heterosexual houses so I can masturbate in their heterosexual kitchens

Jews are never content to integrate themselves into existing structures, whether those structures are states, universities, art museums or the military. They feel compelled to infiltrate and subvert the institutions which admit them as members.

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.

So we teach them how to sit still, how to obey bells, how to make insipid clichés pass for thought, how to be "subversive" in trivial and uniform ways, how to think "outside the box" of tradition and wisdom and into the stainless steel cage of the politically "correct," how to extend the political pinky while sipping the political tea.

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.