Provokes Quotes
65 quotes by 56 authors
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The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on the Creator’s plan,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the…
— Samuel Hahnemann
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I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what…
— Keith Haring
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It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you…
— Epictetus
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When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus…
— R C Sproul
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
— Lord Acton
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Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they…
— Marcel Proust
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Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods…
— Janet Lembke
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My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is,…
— Joey Skaggs
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If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it…
— Epictetus
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The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model,…
— Evo Morales
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An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near…
— John Updike
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IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him…
— William Shakespeare
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
— John Calvin
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Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.
— Beth Moore
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Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.
— Thomas Wilson
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The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened…
— Richard Brautigan
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I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden…
— John Flavel
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