Top 34 Subverting Quotes
#1. If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution.
Gary Hansen
#2. One's nature comes from within, not from without. The abomination occurs in subverting one's instinct in favor of a rigid code written by others. Trying to force yourself into a role that confounds your spirit will always break you.
Garth Stein
#3. All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
George Will
#4. The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.
Jennifer Armintrout
#5. For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
Clare Mulley
#6. Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.
Hugh Howey
#7. Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.
DJ Shadow
#8. What, do you just wake up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll overtake a small country today,' or 'I wonder if there's a long-standing government policy that needs subverting?
Anna Scarlett
#9. Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
Michelle Malkin
#10. The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".
John Green
#11. To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.
Michael Mandelbaum
#12. I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.' And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.
Paul Haggis
#13. we can achieve happiness not by remaking ourselves, but by subverting unhappiness.
Jan Ellison
#14. We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He
Shane Claiborne
#15. The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.
Edward Snowden
#16. While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.
Kevin Shelley
#17. Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.
Aman Mojadidi
#18. When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.
John McAfee
#20. When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
Edward Snowden
#21. Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.
Thomas Frank
#22. I wonder if we're truly subverting anything, or if we're just playing with a loaded gun.
Toure
#23. We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
Zoe Lofgren
#25. the mud. The poop was completely gone, tons of it just dissolved
Rick Riordan
#26. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
Carine Roitfeld
#27. It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
Colm Toibin
#29. The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
Walter Keane
#31. Be courageous, but humble,
passionate, but simple,
have beliefs, but be flexible.
Debasish Mridha
#32. In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders cling on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Hassan Nasrallah
#33. All the first years, their only question had been
asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stone, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive?" "Is she alive?
Mark Twain
#34. When two tigers fight, one is injured beyond repair - and the other one is dead.
Marc Cameron
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