Provocation Quotes

60 quotes by 58 authors

Every great artist has the sense of provocation. — Arthur Cravan
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — Alexander Pope
There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be… — Michael Franti
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C.S. Lewis
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
Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading… — Christopher Hitchens
Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made… — Viera Scheibner
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready… — Rex Stout
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so… — Dalai Lama
I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. — Octavia Spencer
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have… — Michel Houellebecq
AgentialÂ realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it… — Karen Barad
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them… — Robert Hugh Benson
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt

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