The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our…

“As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing.…

— Émile Gaboriau

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

— Ogden Nash

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we…

— Jonathan Sacks

It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when…

— Jacques Ellul

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an…

— Lewis Mumford

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me,…

— Guillermo del Toro

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

— Jill Stein

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited…

— Maria Montessori

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At…

— Kofi Annan

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

— Crystal Reed

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

— Chinua Achebe

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

— Ulrike Meinhof

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

— Pope Pius XI

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

— Mark Kingwell

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then…

— Franklin Raines