Provoking Quotes - Page 19

• The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

  Charles Handy

  Challenges, Inspire, Want

  Charles Handy (2012). “The Age Of Unreason”, p.7, Random House

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• My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

  Guillermo del Toro

  Monsters, World, Imagine

  Source: collider.com

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• [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Voice, Silence

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• I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, Appreciate

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• Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Passion, Loathing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Women, Hot

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.

  Jacques Ellul

  War, Technology, Men

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• Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.

  Jacques Ellul

  Important, Trying, Levers

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• Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Thinking, Achievement

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• One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Order, Two

  "Les misérables".

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• In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

  Rob Brezsny

  Judging, Addiction, Hatred

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

  Richard Davenport-Hines

  Clever, Way, Morality

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• When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Order, Peace With God

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Book, Reality

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• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Needs

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• I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

  Judy Dater

  Wrinkles, People, Thought Provoking

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• What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Around The World, Want, Debate

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• Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, People, Challenges

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• Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Husband, Differences, Government

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• I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Laughter, Caring, Thinking

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

  Pope John Paul II

  Challenges, Inspire, Levels

  Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

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• The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.

  Paul Boateng

  Lying, Challenges, Inspire

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• Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Creating, Government, Support

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• NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change

  Claude Martin

  Catalyst For Change, Challenges, Inspire

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• I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

  Randall Robinson

  Thinking, Want, Christ

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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