Subversion Quotes - Page 1

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
Peace
War
Disloyal
Honest
May
Military
Subversion
Confuse
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
Garrett Hardin / Ecologist
Subversion
Values
Attack
Inevitably
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
Dario Fo / Actor
Affair
Comedy
Subversion
Affairs
Existing
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Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.
Zoe Quinn /
Experiments
New Stuff
Stuff
Subversion
Vertigo
Forms
Label
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Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Form
Order
Subversion
Attempts
Departments
Nixon
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The Players Coalition is an NFL-funded subversion group, so that's why I removed myself from them.
Eric Reid / American Football Safety
Subversion
Coalition
Group
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Germaine Greer / Journalist
Women
Men
Mean
Sight
Subversion
Talking
Together
Uneasy
Women Men Together
Women Men Always
Nowadays
Rank
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The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
Brian Crozier / Historian
Government
Mean
Subversion
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
Leila Slimani /
Indispensable
Lovers
Subversion
Manner
Viewed
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland / Author
Nature
Bird
Earth Day
Ideology
Squirrels
Subversion
Suspicious
Tree
Violet
Accuse
Challenge
Squirrel
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Richard Perle / Political Scientist
Differences
Dissent
May
Protect
Sight
Subversion
Eager
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
Harold Rosenberg / Writer
Art
Believe
Subversion
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What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
Andrew Sullivan / Author
Friendship
Desire
Gay
Pain
Subversion
Anything Else
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I haven't yet written a book in a far-future utopia, where all bad things are eliminated, but it would be fun to do that one day and introduce some subversion.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Bad Things
Subversion
Utopia
Eliminated
Introduce
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen / Singer-Songwriter
Activity
Delicious
Disagreeable
Elements
Pieces
Political
Social
Subversion
Often
Element
Piece
Startling
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At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor, and a need for freedom amid corruption. At its best, noir offers a map of subversion.
Margo Jefferson / Critic
Bleak
Code
Honor
Noir
Offers
Subversion
Alternate
Map
Real Passion
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Attempting
Classic
Museums
Purpose
Subversion
Surrealism
Trying
Works
Complete
Solid
Necessary
Purposes
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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.
Brian Ferneyhough / Composer
Accumulation
Canon
Livelihood
Musical
Ruling
Subversion
Western
Accumulate
Composers
Depended
Merely
Musics
Powers
Whom
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Thousands of dedicated men and women in the intelligence community and law enforcement are working tirelessly to prevent the subversion of our democratic processes by Beijing, Moscow and Tehran.
Robert C. O'brien /
Beijing
Dedicated
Democratic
Enforcement
Intelligence Community
Law Enforcement
Men And Women
Moscow
Subversion
Tehran
Men Women Intelligence
Women Men Intelligence
Prevent
Processes
Thousands
Tirelessly
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
John Stuart Mill / Philosopher
Affected
Conquest
Moral
Opinion
Political Revolution
Subversion
Revolutions
Established
Foreign
Merely
Opinions
Originate
Previous
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
Women
Men
Accepted
America
Blood
Dare
Disloyal
Doctrine
Heirs
Honest
May
Men And Women
Patriotic
Spirit
Subversion
Men Women May
Confuse
Descended
Women Men America
Rebels
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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.
Lydia Millet / Novelist
Comic Book
Genre
Subversion
Superhero
Deemed
Vast
Published
Vast Majority
Watchmen
Widely
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Naomi Wolf / Author
Danger
Hype
Manipulate
Practice
Seeking
Subversion
Terror
Corrupt
Domestic
Frequently
Leaders
Outcome
Standard
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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 / Writer
Avant Garde
Fascism
Mayhem
Subversion
Italy
Link
Phantom
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans / Journalist
Accusation
Communist
Despite
Factual
Lists
Mccarthyism
Soviet
Subversion
Well Known
Agent
Alleged
Basis
Bogus
Charges
Existed
In The End
Myriad
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
Benjamin N. Cardozo /
Action
Binding
Crisis
Cry
Decay
Force
Nations
Needed
Obscure
Raised
Ready
Subversion
Rules
Attend
Blessings
Forms
Evils
Existing
Seem
Systems
Worlds
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