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Quotes About Provocation

I'm trying to dominate, and if you dominate, you're going to be hated because you're going to talk so much stuff.
~ Joel Embiid
Whenever a hater said they hated something about Miranda, I'd do it more.
~ Colleen Ballinger
The haters can go to any extent to get the attention and I'm used to trolling.
~ Sara Khan
By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
~ Tibor Kalman
The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.
~ Udo Kier
Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.
~ Jim Goad
I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.
~ Scott Caan
There's a way of getting heat that works for you, and there's a way of getting heat that works against you.
~ Eric Bischoff
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Why you no good, scruffy looking, nerf herder!
~ George Lucas
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
~ George Orwell
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
~ George Orwell
February your grandmother!
~ George Orwell
but I am so nauseated by Christian and Theosophical guff about the 'good and the true' that I prefer the appearance of evil to that of good.
~ George Pendle
To suggest the contrary was to infuriate her.
~ George S. Clason
Look, show your cock. It's the shortest line between two points. The world ain't giving away nice lives. You got a trust fund? You a genius? Show your cock. It's what you got.
~ George Saunders
Show your cock, she says, and dies again.
~ George Saunders
When a confrontation occurs, people rush toward it, to film it and stoke it, in the hope that someone on the other side will fly off the handle and do something extreme, and thereby incontrovertibly discredit his side of the argument. This river-and-shore arrangement advantages the Trump supporters: they can walk coolly past, playing the offended party, refusing to engage.
~ George Saunders
When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.
~ Georges Bataille
I have in my mind an obscenity so great that I could vomit the most dreadful words and it wouldn't be enough!
~ Georges Bataille
only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.` Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess. Selected Writings 1927-1939, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2004, p. 93
~ Georges Bataille
only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.
~ Georges Bataille
we did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty as immodestly as possible.
~ Georges Bataille
La vita, giovanotto, è una donna sdraiata, con seni accostati e rigonfi, con una gran pancia liscia e molle fra i fianchi sporgenti, con braccia sottili, cosce piene e occhi socchiusi, che nella sua provocazione splendida e beffarda esige il nostro più fervido ardore.
~ Georges Perec