Quotes About Provocation

If you can't offend people in a free society, then the question you have to ask yourself is, "Just how free is it?

real poetry must hurt, as if you'd forgotten you wrapped a razor blade in your handkerchief and you blow your nose, no book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out, [...]

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't.

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

The first hint of what is to come occurs near the end of Luther's obscurity. In September 1517 the dutiful Johann Rhau-Grunenberg publishes a one-page broadsheet by Luther with a boring title: A Disputation against Scholastic Theology. In his broadsheet, Luther ironically lists concise propositions to be argued over—a central practice of scholasticism—in order to criticize scholasticism itself, sort of like a poet writing a poem to criticize poetry.

I'm going to serve up his balls for breakfast. Your job, to keep within this metaphor, is to do the grocery shopping. Can you handle that?" That

If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump.

Pipe down cunt

I again recall provoking resentment by dubbing the American bard "a male lesbian," much as Shakespeare was when writing the sonnets.

You damn morphodite, I'll kill you!

Aunty," she said, cordially, "why don't you go pee in your hat?

tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare. —Esto

There was no mistaking it, Albert had stuck out his tongue at her. She was pregnant.

A mí me dijo que tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare

I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco. was all Atticus said about it. According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him...Miss Stephanie said Atticus didn't bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr. Ewell call him names wild horses could not bring her to repeat.

The book to read is not the one that things for you but the one which makes you think.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think .

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

I just wanted to reach out and touch it. I wanted to reach out and touch it and reach out and touch it, so I reached out and touched it, and she quick stood up and punched me in the arm.

It made me sick to my stomach thinking about why I'd been slapped. Slapping is never a good thing, but there should at least be some sort of legitimate reason behind it, like an exclamation mark needs to follow an exclamatory sentence. I remembered the teacher who'd made fun of me for doing that. You can't just put an exclamatory sentence anywhere!

HARHARBLOODY HAR. Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it, society!

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.