Quotes About Subversion

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.

Punk was a very liberating force.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills Just before dawn An' knock the little jockeys Off the rich people's lawn An' before they get up I'll be gone, I'll be gone Before they get up I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game.

120 journées is a diabolically ingenious machine which simultaneously inverts the reality of Sade's situation and subverts the morality that justified it.

To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

I glimpse again that biblical rhythm of expansion-and-contraction, assertion-and-subversion. As that rhythm becomes ever clearer as the very heartbeat of the biblical tradition, we will see the basic solution for How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian. Read it all carefully and thoughtfully, recognize radicality's assertion, expect normalcy's subversion, and respect the honesty of a story that tells the truth.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

He believed, not without some) ustification, that Doubleday had set out deliberately to subvert the book it had bought from him.

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

The easiest way to get the chairperson to adjourn the session is to jointly create ruckus and commotion in a pre-decided fashion in the midst of deliberation and discussion.

Sharing weakness is hard because it is the ultimate act of subversion against your special, objectified self. You won't go down without a fight!

I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'

Not all drag queens but certainly the ones who empowered me, are people who pushed buttons, and poked fun at society from Leigh Bowery, to Lady Bunny and Divine.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.