Provoked Quotes
76 quotes by 68 authors
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the…
— Omar N. Bradley
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I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can…
— Sun Tzu
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
— William Cowper
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
— Samuel Johnson
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Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives…
— Rajneesh
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Existence is god called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god. The moment you become capable of…
— Rajneesh
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
— Edmund Burke
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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
— Ann Radcliffe
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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
— Thomas Sowell
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The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the bloodinto a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable…
— Antoine Bechamp
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in…
— R C Sproul
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I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for…
— Samuel Pepys
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Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the…
— Charles S. Maier
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How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush…
— Pope Pius XII
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When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know…
— Rajneesh
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Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space…
— Leslie Scalapino
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All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
— Clive Bell
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