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subversions
«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.»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
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advanced, Arts and, clinging, conservatives, imperative, moral principle, shaken, sold-out, subversion, subversions
«Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
free-thinking, free speech, free thought, restriction, restrictions, subversion, subversions, un-American
«May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| Keywords:
confuse, disloyal, dissent, dissenting, dissents, subversion, subversions
«And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Mankind,
Religion
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apt, bring about, compelled, competence, devoid, devoid of, disorders, experts, free state, novelties, slavishly, submit, subversion, subversions, whatsoever, whim
«The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.»
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affected, conquest, consequence, institutions, originate, originate in, political institutions, previous, revolutions, subversion, subversions
«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
«They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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advance, announcing, approach, daylight, daylights, dread, fatal, harbinger, preachers, scowl, scowled, scowling, subversion, subversions, They Live, The Living Daylights, The Witches, witches, witching