Quotes with subversion

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  • Leonard Cohen 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. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Barbara Jordan My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
    Source: Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Harold Rosenberg Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Germaine Greer The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo 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
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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