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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical ...
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own y ...
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is ev ...
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive ...
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high auth ...
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's i ...
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is s ...
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [e ...
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