Quotes About Provocation

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

The second guy always gets caught, and that's why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

Why antagonize somebody for no reason? Why try to garner attention by doing something negative? Why not do something positive on your own merits, instead of somebody else, whether it's to try to antagonize them or draw their ire, or even to have them help you out.

Perry Farrell is so gross, and his wife looks like a monkey.

There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her.

The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensify their actions.

Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.