Quotes About Provocation

Augustine concluded that war, if necessary to save the state, could be a lesser evil than peace—and that the procedural prerequisites for necessity could be stated. Had provocation occurred? Had competent authority exhausted peaceful alternatives? Would the resort to violence be a means chosen, not an end in itself?

Disco sucks? You never heard that from me.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

You want one civil war, brah?

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

I never understood why people take pictures of themselves giving the finger. Was the camera mean to you?

People who have no LIFE will always try to start DRAMA in yours.

I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.

his scorn was like a spark falling on dry tinder.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Why don't you come up sometime and see me?… Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Come on, hurry up and aim your .44 Magnum at my pink flowerbed. Oh, come on, let's not talk pistols when you know it's a bazooka. ?

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Sod off and die, Dante,

Contrary to what you obviously believe, I don't spend my hours thinking up ways to annoy you,' Troy snaps. 'Actually, I don't think of you at all, so could you miss me with your bullshit, please?