Provoking Quotes - Page 8

• To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

  Ernst Otto Fischer

  Dream, Slumber, Literature

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• I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Challenges, Peaceful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature, Definitions, Argument

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Retaliation, Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

  Milton Friedman

  Conflict, Individual, States

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

  Dacia Maraini

  Husband, Betrayal, Love Is

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

  John Calvin

  Boon, Lack Of Trust, Request

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Helping, Good Intentions, I Can

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Fun, Thought Provoking, Attention

  Source: popculturezoo.com

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• I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Challenges, Sake

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

  Christopher Fry

  Moon, Birth Rate, Rising

  The Lady's Not for Burning act 3 (1949)

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• I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.

  Fashawn

  Gangsta, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

  Pierre Charron

  Mind, Hardship, Fortune

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”, p.149

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Powerful, Real, Issues

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Insult

  "Pope Francis says there are limits to freedom of expression". Press conference on the plane to the Philippines, en.radiovaticana.va. January 15, 2015.

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• It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Tasks, Generations, New Generation

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Children, Biblical

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• I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

  Robin Sharma

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gqindia.com

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• If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

  Joshua Harris

  Men, Want, Grows

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• People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Reality, People

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• I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I would be meeting new people and have a change in locale. I look back at my career and one of my favorite records I ever made was right after I moved to Nashville.

  Matt Wertz

  Inspiration, Nashville, Cities

  Source: maroonweekly.com

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• By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

  Jill Stein

  Russia, Empowering, Putin

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.

  Zachary Quinto

  Stars, Jobs, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out of provoking. They don't always believe the things they say, they just like to watch people go crazy. You know, I knew people like that in elementary school - bullies of one kind or another.

  Tim Wu

  Crazy, Believe, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Challenges, Environmental

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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