Quotes About Provocation

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

A hit dog will holler.

I think maybe it's time for liberals to not start weeping when I say things like 'retard' or 'illegal alien.'

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

Why are these things happening in Portland? In part, it's because we are a progressive community. Groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys... they come from the outside. They come here because they know that their message is not necessarily welcomed here. They're trying to provoke a reaction.

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

We don't preach, but we just tell you what we think, and it provokes thought.

Play up the outrage factor and suddenly groups bond together like never before - and prepare to attack like never before.

I think it's the aggressive press we have that does try to push President Trump, you know, into an area where maybe he will say something that then they'll just jump on.

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

I delight in embarrassing somebody else.

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

The Devil is fun.

I love devils.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.