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Quotes About Provocation

if you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Qualsiasi persona normale di tanto in tanto prova la tentazione di sputarsi nelle mani, issare la bandiera nera e cominciare a tagliare le gole.
~ H. L. Mencken
Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems.
~ Hanif Kureishi
One of his black girlfriends did once persuade him to go on an anti-racist demonstration; and when the National Front yelled, Get back, Pakis! Chili, wearing a mink-coloured suit, had annoyed everyone by taking out his fat wallet, waving it at the racists and shouting, Get back to your council flats, paupers!
~ Hanif Kureishi
Here are two short articles on how to seduce your man: ?Ask him if he wants to have sex. And: ?Say, Yes, that would be nice.
~ Harlan Coben
He didn't believe in karma, but then again there was no reason to poke karma in the ribs.
~ Harlan Coben
Go fuck yourself," she said. Win rose. "Undeniably a better option than present company.
~ Harlan Coben
The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.
~ Allan Bloom
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
~ Kate Bush
You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.
~ Jimmy Piersall
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
~ Kathryn Stockett
Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.
~ Andrew Shaffer
To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.
~ Dan Abrams
I'm not exaggerating when I say 'Taxi Driver' was the movie that stopped me in my tracks. That was the first time it got me thinking about movies.
~ Terence Winter
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
~ Al Goldstein
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
~ Penn Jillette
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Are you really coming at me?" "Lady, I'm trying to be nice to you. But I wouldn't push your luck with me." "You? Tiny little hybrid freak? What are you going to do?" "Morally reprehensible things that most good people would be appalled by.
~ Shelly Laurenston
She lifted her chin and returned his unyielding gaze. "Do what you will." His blue eyes darkened to the color of a moonlit sky. "You should be careful, milady, about issuing such an invitation.
~ Shelly Thacker
I am going to kill you - eagerly and with great satisfaction. Perhaps I am speaking figuratively; perhaps not. You will find out. Likely too late.
~ Sherry Thomas
If looks could kill—there would have been wholesale murder that day.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Let us admit it, to irritate idiots actually is enjoyable.
~ Simon Leys
Someone's looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy," said Melody.
~ Simon R. Green