Quotes About Provocation

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton." Nick didn't blink. "Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.

All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.