45 Quotes About Subversion

We need to be careful wherever art and literature, disguised in beauty, entertainment, or codes are used for subversion, rather than liberating, uplifting innocent souls.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.

I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.

Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.

If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies.

That's the pattern of most subversive organization," Peter explained. "They use feelings of patriotism and loyalty to a chosen faith to stir up feelings of hate and so set one group against another.

The tendency of democratic authorities is to acquiesce in any broadcasting which does not offend against decency and which is not subversive of the state. The point is rapidly being approached at which the precise interpretation of these principles will become exceedingly interesting.