A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When religion demands you refrain from doing something otherwise benign, that's just a provocation to do it more.” — David Silverman Copy Share Image
A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Trump's election is generally bad news… In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“All these iterations have been political interventions: as provocation, as direct action to discomfort, as challenge to what I consider nonliberatory praxis.… — Cindy Milstein Copy Share Image
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
“It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with… — John Vane Copy Share Image
Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is… — Viera Scheibner Copy Share Image
