Quotes About Provocation

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Did you really shoot JFK? I didn't think chimpanzees lived that long. Dmitri-9: Stupid, imperialist bouffant? Ugly face? That shit was asking for it!

He was always wondering when the other shoe would drop and Shelly would go into attack mode.

I wonder how he'd feel if I cut off his nut sack and flung it against the cupboard door.

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

I'm on a mission. If I can make even one person not enjoy something they're currently enjoying, it's all worth it!

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

I found that when I went to the ring as a bad guy, people hated that I took care of myself. That I went to the gym, that I had hair extensions, that I put makeup on. They hated that I was a girly-girl. I thought, OK, I'm going to crank that up to 110 percent and make people really annoyed.

My adolescent rebellions took the form of, if anything, passive aggressively doing what was asked of me but doing it ten times more than what was asked of me, so that eventually they'd have to beg me to stop.

I use glamour as a tool, almost like armor to confidently take up space, to provoke questions and conversations about society and gender norms.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.

Tell them all to go fuck themselves.