Provoking Quotes · Page 13

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the…

— Martin Niemoller

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

— Chris Lilley

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the…

— Mary J. Blige

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us…

— Paul Muldoon

Just watching an actor in front you really provokes you in such a sudden, unexpected way. You can't ask for anything more…

— Dan Byrd

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

— Catharine Beecher

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

— Rob Brezsny

I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by…

— Sherrie Levine

There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I…

— William Morris

I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need…

— Madonna Ciccone

The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to…

— Martin E. Marty

Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles…

— Michael Meade

Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will…

— Kofi Annan

Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . .…

— Janet Lembke

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

— William Mapother

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

— Francis Chan

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change.…

— Brigitte Nielsen

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Jonathan Sacks

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

— Edward Hirsch

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity…

— George Henry Lewes

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

— Jordan Peele

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Pope Pius XI

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to…

— Kate Bush

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a…

— Barbra Streisand

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is…

— Daniel Humair

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple…

— Muhammad Yunus

Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be…

— Ralph Nader

Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds.…

— Steve Pavlina

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better…

— Robin Sharma

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

— Ulrike Meinhof

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is…

— Stanley Schmidt

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

— Lars von Trier

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

— Doris Lessing

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I…

— Matt Wertz