A Quote by Eric Idle

Subversion is what I do.

Eric Idle

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Eric Idle
English - Comedian
Born: March 29, 1943

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.

John Stuart Mill

It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.

Sufjan Stevens

When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

Garrett Hardin

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Dario Fo

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.

Zoe Quinn

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Brian Crozier

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland

The Players Coalition is an NFL-funded subversion group, so that's why I removed myself from them.

Eric Reid

My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.

Leila Slimani

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

Bob Woodward

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Barbara Jordan

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Blaise Pascal

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

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