Provoked Quotes

76 quotes by 68 authors

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
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
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
The proud are ever most provoked by pride. — William Cowper
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. — Clive Bell

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