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Quotes About Provocation

Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
~ Mark Twain
Los colombianos constantemente buscaban excusas para verter más sangre. De
~ Jaime Manrique
I wanted to do something to his cheerful, hideous, worldly face which would make it impossible for him ever again to smile at anyone the way he was smiling at me.
~ James Baldwin
I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can even get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.
~ James Baldwin
Artists are here to disturb the peace...
~ James Baldwin
He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it.
~ James Boswell
I've never been given to casual use of vulgar language--unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness--but there's no other way to say this: a guy tries to fuck me ... well, fuck him.
~ James Carlos Blake
Let's piss on the bargain.
~ James Clavell
Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.
~ James Finn Garner
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
~ James Frey
I'll kill you to death till you're dead and die, you Sons of Whores
~ James Frey
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
~ Mike White
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.
~ Jared Leto
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
~ Josh Tillman
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies.
~ Josh Homme
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.
~ Josh Homme
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
~ N. K. Jemisin
It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.
~ Dana Bash
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
~ Barbara Deming
I taunt and provoke, but you have to understand that I do that for a reason. I want to elicit a response. Remember that my mission is to capture on film and digital recording devices evidence of the paranormal. Many times, I can't do that by being nice.
~ Zak Bagans
The writer who offends nobody has nothing to say.
~ Yeo-tze
You have sent me a Flanders mare.
~ Henry VIII of England
When in doubt, freak 'em out.
~ Sharon Needles