Quotes About Provocation

Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas

We were playing this music and we were trying to be the heaviest thing on the face of the planet. We wanted just to piss people off and send everybody home. and that can't be, like, flower metal." - Possessed's Jeff Beccera on coining the term 'death metal

Los provocadores, los tiranos, todos los que, de un modo u otro, ofenden al prójimo, son reos, no sólo del mal que cometen, sino también de la perversión que llevan al ánimo de los ofendidos.

What is it?" She hissed through clenched teeth. "What's wrong?" He bent down toward her. "I was just thinking how beautiful you looked." The punch was impressive, both accurate and strong. Jette's fist caught her husband squarely on the jaw. It was an absolute peach of a shot, and it propelled him backward into the chest of drawers.

Why don't you put on an animal's pelt and drag me to your house by my hair?

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.

I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.

Please dox me. You don't even need to dox me - I'll give you my address and wait for you by my doorstep.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

Clinton's a schmuck.

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

I know how to make myself very, very cocky and annoying. That's my character. I enjoy doing it. People hate it. But I don't mind it when people hate it.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Shawn Michaels is one of those wise-cracking guys who would say a smart comment to you, but then if you face him, he would run and cry somewhere.

With my own work, I've always tried at least to wake people up and shake them out of their complacency. And that's always easier if I'm working with an artist who really has something to say.

I enjoyed harassing tram conductors.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

If I'm going to get suspended, I want to hit the guy.

What I try to do on my Instagram is provoke discussion and share environmental and sustainability messages.