Upside Down quotes
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down."
"Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it."
"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down."
"It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin."
"I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have."
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"Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down."
"The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge."
"It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down"
"It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true."
