Quotes about Subversion
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
— Hosea 7:15
In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.
— Tina Fey
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
— John Knox
Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.
— Philip Yancey
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
None knows better than the devil, that "to divide is to conquer.
— JC Ryle
A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
— Proverbs 19:3
The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the transformative power of truth is not a credible companion for consolidating modes of established power, but that truth characteristically runs beyond the confines of such power.
— Walter Brueggemann
And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”
— Luke 23:2
Satan perverts everything good by mimicking and mocking the real thing.
— Billy Graham
subversives in the face of totalism have always had to speak twice in the same utterance, once for the official record and once for the truth of bodily reality.
— Walter Brueggemann
A totalizing regime cannot tolerate dissent or subversion. Thus, as is necessary, totalizing regimes must silence dissent, must prohibit subversion, must control artists, must banish poets, and when necessary must kill prophets.
— Walter Brueggemann