Subversion Quotes

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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.

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.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

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.

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.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

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.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.