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«Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
| Keywords:
authority, criticism, equate, equated, our policy, patriotism, policies, subversive, this policy
«The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| Keywords:
high society, particularity, quarrel, selves, subversive
«'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the deadliest of pieces; the manly pawn: the weakest.'»
«The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family»
«People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
class struggle, constraints, corpse, everyday life, explicitly, referring, refusal, subversive
«If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
at liberty, enact, enacted, enacting, Judges, legislature, positively, reject, subversive
«If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.»
Author: Erica Jong
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activities, creativity, dictators, insight, lead, revolutionaries, revolutionary, Sex and, subversive, The Dictators, The Knowledge, voice
«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.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Delicious, disagreeable, element, manifests, piece of work, social activity, startle, startling, subversion, subversions, subversive
«Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
custard, Custards, custard pie, dirty, dirty joke, PIE, pies, rebellion, subversive, ultimately
«The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
carries, sacrilege, subversive, The sense, violation, violations
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