Quotes About Provocation

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom.

I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.

Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

The fans at Quicken Loans Arena are pretty hostile. They say nasty things.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The myth of pure evil, then, is surprisingly durable and elastic. Even when each side provokes and antagonizes the other, the myth can be invoked. Ironically, the myth fails to acknowledge mutual provocation, but it appears that both sides in a conflict are quite capable of seeing themselves as innocent victims and the other as unreasonably, gratuitously wicked.

I have learnt by actual stress of imminent danger, in the first place, that self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder, and, in the second place, that persistent self-control under the provocation of African travel is impossible without real, heartfelt sympathy for the natives with whom one has to deal.

You do not have to give people reasons to be violent, because they already have plenty of reasons. All you have to do is take away their reasons to restrain themselves.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Altercations, fights, wars, only begin because something unjust has transpired.

People get angry when I insult them justly, but they never care when they offend me unjustly.

You got your dick in the vagina so much I should just call you a pussy.

Your behavior makes me angry, the outcome of your behavior makes me sad, altogether you offend me.

Hey!" he yelled at the bear. "Hey you dumb stupid bastard! Why don't you come suck on my dick!

everybody puts their balls on her!

Pewnego razu poszed?em do lokalu o z?ej reputacji, poniewa? chcia?em da? z?y przyk?ad m?odzie?y. Stoj? wi?c przy barze i daj?.

You didn't do anything to her, did you?" "Nothing that would provoke her to flee." Except ruin her for any other man. And offer her a marriage of the sort she found appalling. And desire her with an intensity that made his throat close up at the thought of her gone.