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Quotes About Provocation

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
~ Isabel Allende
One of my favorite teachers is Osho, mainly because he liked to push people's buttons just to get them to think and live outside of their comfort zone.
~ Tara Stiles
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
~ Cyrus Ching
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
They love him most for the enemies that he has made.
~ General E. S. Bragg
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.
~ E. L. Simpson
People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.
~ Rick Wakeman
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
~ Eminem
Believe or not, love me or hate me, YoungBoy is Tupac, man.
~ Trippie Redd
I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.
~ Meles Zenawi
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
~ Jim Capaldi
He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.
~ Nipsey Russell
I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I think a lot before tweeting. I show it like I don't, but I do. Sometimes I don't mean it, sometimes I mean it, and sometimes I like to provoke a reaction from people. I enjoy reactions from them.
~ Ram Gopal Varma
But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.
~ Godfrey
I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.
~ Stan Lee
Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!
~ Stephenie Meyer
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.
~ Jerry Stahl
It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Some men send me condoms and underpants. I'm not sure what they want.
~ Martine McCutcheon
"I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice..."
~ Muhammad Ali
Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
~ Nikita Khrushchev