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Quotes About Provocation

There was something aggressive in her that always went too far. She had thrown a marcasite egg at her lover's window once, a green egg she particularly valued. She had stayed in this house too long. She had fucked the Director. She had let her breasts hang out before Homer. She had gone too far. No doubt if she had children she would neglect them.
~ Marian Engel
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
~ Marilyn Manson
Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?
~ Big Daddy Kane
Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.
~ Demetri Martin
Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.
~ Anne Ellis
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
~ John Lydon
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
~ John Tillotson
I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.
~ Jim Jefferies
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
~ Pamela Geller
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
~ Tariq Ramadan
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
~ Edmund Burke
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
~ Will Rogers
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
~ Shirley MacLaine
It's ironic that the people who complain about drama are the ones who fuel the fire with it; Simple solution to drama - keep your mouth shut!
~ Unknown
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
~ Salman Rushdie
Im having one of those days where my middle finger is answering all my questions.
~ Unknown
If I were a bird, you'd be the first person I'd sh.. on.
~ Unknown
I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.
~ Jarod Kintz
I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Ideas can come anytime, anywhere, while I am making this gazpacho or going to the bathroom. I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
~ Marina Abramovic
I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
~ Marina Abramovic
He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
pointless spunktrumpet.
~ Mark Billingham