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Quotes About Provocation

With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We've provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one.
~ Zacky Vengeance
What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.
~ Steve Wynn
My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
~ George C. Wolfe
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
~ Jules Renard
My goal isn't to shock.
~ Taylor Momsen
It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.
~ Greg Vaughan
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.
~ Marilyn Manson
For the most part I excel as being the bad guy, and that's definitely a strong point for me.
~ Wade Barrett
Being a bad guy is fun for me.
~ Daniel Bryan
I myself enjoy being a bad guy more because it's way fun for me.
~ Xavier Woods
You can talk all you want but I'm definitely going to bark back.
~ Tristan Thompson
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
~ Glenn Gould
I've never started beef with anybody that didn't start with me first.
~ Cam'ron
That guy, he has done some bad things against me. If someone is bad to me, I must be bad to them. You know why? Because if you didn't, that guy will think you are a pussy guy. And then he will be bothering you all the time. You have to go against him back, you know?
~ Jon Krakauer
Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.
~ Jonathan Franzen
As Bruno neared, Stolarsky stepped from behind the door. His feet and legs were bare. He held a pistol, loosely, and wore nothing but a thin T-shirt. The darkness beneath its hem revealed as a scribble of genitals and hair, his penis like a second sarcastic nose.
~ Jonathan Lethem
How Peter, enraged at the loss of such large territories, and consequently of so much revenue, thundered against Martin
~ Jonathan Swift
Un atribut al lucrurilor infernale e irealitatea, un atribut ce pare s? mic?oreze spaimele pe care le provoac?, dar poate c? le spore?te.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Right now he's desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and Dre and everybody else. He'll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the 'I'm a mad gangsta' hardcore route, and ain't nobody gonna believe him."--On his feud with bubblegum rapper Ja Rule.
~ 50 Cent
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
~ A. P. Herbert
Había pasado por la vida en un estado de oposición y exasperación, ofendiendo y siendo ofendido sin motivo ni escrúpulos.
~ A.J.A. Symons
Sometimes the proper intellectual argument is "FUCK YOU!
~ Abbie Hoffman