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Quotes About Provocation

Pour exciter le cheval, il faut exciter la mouche ; pour exciter la mouche, il faut exciter toutes les autres mouches, cercle vicieux comme hypothèse universelle, que l'humanité n'a jamais transgressé.
~ Abdelkebir Khatibi
Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes.
~ Abigail Van Buren
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
~ Abraham Flexner
The Kid made a pass at Vi," Miller said, staring straight ahead. His blue eyes like ice. "He told her he'd like to place his pecker right between her titties and ride her like a mule." "The Kid said that?" Harvey asked, lighting up a Chesterfield and fanning out the match. "I don't even know what that means. 'Like a mule'?
~ Ace Atkins
the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.
~ Adam Begley
Go ahead and flunk me for begging the question, then go ahead and fuck yourself for asking it.
~ Adam Levin
I don't recall all twelve points of the Great Animal Charter, but I know that the right to vote, to work, the right to welfare benefits and the creation of a set number of specifically animal MPs and MEPs was part of it. It was never going to happen, of course. I don't suppose the animals believed it would pass; their intention was to provoke dissension amongst humanity.
~ Adam Roberts
Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.
~ Adele Parks
holy shit reyna you're dogshit no cyap
~ Adolf Hitler
Because I love making people mad. It is my favorite pastime.
~ Maxwell Jacob Friedman
Samir is a well composed person. Dolly Bindra tried his patience big time.
~ Neelam Kothari
Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.
~ Stewart Lee
It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.
~ Paul Morrissey
Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.
~ Brad Marchand
People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
~ Noel Gallagher
When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.
~ James Murphy
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
~ Pietro Aretino
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
~ Pope Paul VI
An evil beast of taunting and teasing, attack and retreat.
~ Portia Da Costa
You're right,' I'd say. 'The planet is grossly overpopulated and we'd better do something about it. Do you want to machine-gun the surplus yourself, or shall we start with you?
~ Poul Anderson
Barang siapa menyebar angin dia akan berpanen badai.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
What's missing from pop music is danger.
~ Prince Rogers Nelson (Prince)
Create whatever raises agitation in your mind.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head.
~ Proverb