Quotes About Provocation

Someone asked them to be quiet, so it's just a matter of a time before all hell breaks loose.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

This aggressive, impulsive lashing out is completely baffling to the teacher. He doesn't understand what is really going on. When he describes the scene to others, he'll say something like, "For no reason at all, he just came at me." This is one of the most common descriptions of the behavioral outbursts related to evocative cues: Out of the blue. Unpredictable. The behaviors seem unprovoked. Oprah:

Hey, check this cheap-shot fascist shit," David muttered, just for the record.

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.

You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!

Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on!

Yep. Reckon y'all dumb meat-sacks 'bout to get fornicated and buzzed up right nice.

You—stink," I ended lamely, so sore I couldn't even try to be clever. "Okay, I stink," he said, walking off, "but someday you'll cut off an arm for one little whiff.

But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand, dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?—what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating?

all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.

Weapons themselves can tempt a man to fight.

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

You stupid food! -Athene to Ares

If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

And the New York Journal of Commerce, half-playfully, half-seriously, wrote: Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought all to be captured, and the cities battered down, and the world burned up, so that we can start again. There would be fun in that, Some interest, — something to talk about.

You stupid piece of warm bacon.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.

It may be that America is developing a whole new category of essentially social criminals Ã¢â'¬Â¦ persons who threaten the police and the traditional social structure even when they are breaking no law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ because they view The Law with contempt and the police with distrust, and this abiding resentment can explode without warning at the slightest provocation.

You cheap honky faggots," he snarled. "Which one of you wants to get cut?

Don't worry, boys, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever - Saul Alinsky to his staff shortly before his death, June 1972.