Provoking Quotes

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

— Franklin Raines

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

— Mark Kingwell

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

— Pope Pius XI

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

— Ulrike Meinhof

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

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Crystal Reed

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

— Kofi Annan

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

— Maria Montessori

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

— Jill Stein

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Lewis Mumford

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

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Jonathan Sacks

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

— Victor Hugo

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about…

— Steve Pavlina

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

— Reid Scott

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge…

— Adrienne Rich

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke…

— Vaclav Havel

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

— Robert Bresson

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much…

— Keith Haring

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An…

— Jim Rohn

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

— Steve Coogan

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being…

— Juliette Binoche