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Quotes About Provocation

I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.
~ CM Punk
From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.
~ J.R. Ward
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.
~ Cassandra Clare
Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?
~ Steven Morrissey
Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.
~ Amy Poehler
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
~ Seth Godin
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
~ John Lydon
you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors
~ Abraham Lincoln
The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.
~ Adam Smith
You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.
~ Adriana Trigiani
If words suffice not, blows must follow.
~ Aesop
The list of ways that others bother us is endless.
~ Alan Cohen
Alan Dean Foster
~ You shot first.
You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.
~ Alan Moore
None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!
~ Alan Moore
He missed the way Londoners sounded as he killed them – like they were offended that anyone would even dare.
~ Derek Landy
For Ram, Kaikeyi is no villain; he is no victim and certainly not a hero. A hero is provoked into action. A yajaman needs no provocation to act. Provocation makes action a reaction, turns
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails."
~ Diogenes the Cynic
The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.
~ Don Winslow
I absolutely LOVE a one-star review. It means that I successfully pissed someone off enough to make them respond! In an age of sheeple...my God! That's a miracle!!
~ Donald Allen Kirch
Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling.
~ Donald Antrim
I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.
~ Andrew Dice Clay