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“Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.”

People Want Numbers Enemy Effects Killing Scales Permanent Damage Indifferent Outrage Intimidating Hostage Provocation Collateral Hezbollah Collateral Damage

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.”

Purpose Known Proud Suits Persona Provocation

Author:Lars von Trier

“We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.”

Thinking Should War Use Force Social Interest Differences Common Cold Threat Dialogue Ideology Settling Cooperation Cold War Disputes Resorts Social Systems Provocation Common Interests

Author:Wu Bangguo

“A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.”

Strikes Gentleman Provocation

Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.”

Men Common Marketing Common Sense Guilty Bottles Scent Thighs Provocation Cleavage

Author:Tom Ford

“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.”

Film Answers Empowerment Distance Statements Dialogue Appeals Cinema Consumption Consensus Spectators Barrels Closeness Provocation Clarifying

Author:Michael Haneke

“It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.”

Men Should Real Reason Despite Reason Why Invitations Provocation Real Strength

Book:Scientology, a New Slant on Life

Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life

“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Belief Waiting Numbers Steps Courage Dangerous Danger Tomorrow Treats Reactions Accumulation Provocation Small Steps Maybe Tomorrow

Author:Gyorgy Konrad

“The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.”

Ifs Wish Challenges Essentials Expectations Add Confusion Gates Approval Entering Confusing Plague Avoided Provocation

Author:Andre Breton

“At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.”

Needs Made Done Results Beauty Roots Response Supposed To Be Insult Pearls Equilibrium Disturbance Interruptions Intrusion Provocation

Book:The Sound of Paper

Source: The Sound of Paper

“I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.”

Men Should Believe Heart Shows Can Do Rooms Fire Dog Don't Believe Attractive Glowing Good Sense Interior Design Provocation Dog Love Fireplaces Man And Dog

Author:Dorothy Draper

“The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.”

Men Heart Play Facts Difficult Brain Holmes Swagger Provocation Swag

Author:Jeremy Brett

“H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.”

Source: Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government

“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.”

Marriage Taken Adultery Provocation Provincialism

Author:Aldous Huxley

“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”

Mind Reason Able Bears Forgiveness Argument Forgiving Great Minds Provocation

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter

“Every great artist has the sense of provocation.”

Artist Great Art Great Artist Provocation

Author:Arthur Cravan

“The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.”

Ifs Thinking Real Waiting Blood Ocean Intention Bitter Invited Provocation

Author:Saul Bellow

“Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.”

Asks Strong Provocation Antipathy

Author:Alexander Pope

“There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.”

Men Reason Young Loses Serious Regret Weak Anger Rage Young Man Pitiful Provocation Tantrums Serious Things

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home”

Want Feels Home Music Demon Provocation

Author:Michael Franti

“What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.”

Book Inspiration Sound Sleep Companion Indispensable Good Book Provocation Sound Sleep

Book:The Journals

Source: The Journals

“Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.”

Shows Ill Show Me Provocation Ill Tempered

Author:C. S. Lewis

“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”

Men War Black Mankind Crime Stupid Folly Tragic Deliberate Advise Provocation

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.”

“Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.”

Enough Please Determined Offended Relatable Fanatics Degrading Provocation

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.”

Men Wells Made Opinion Offers Disease Vaccines Provocation Polio Outbreaks Vaccinations Personal Opinions Polio Vaccine

Author:Viera Scheibner

“I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.”

Ifs Men Would Be Action Ready Normal Labor Technique Reputation Eccentricity Provocation Oddities

Book:Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men

Source: Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men

“I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.”

Action Courses Security Terrible Protect Provocation

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.”

Aim Chiefs Interpretation Instruction Provocation

Book:Interpreting Our Heritage

Source: Interpreting Our Heritage

“The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations”

Politics Social Process Goal Space Identity Victory Limits Creating Ultimate Finals Endless Agents Radical Empowering Minorities Exclusion Parody Excluded Ultimate Goal Provocation

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

Objects Forgiveness Stones Adversity Forgiving Oneself Extremes Throwing Doing Good Provocation

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.”

Use Problem Pleasure Insult Tempted Provocation Problems In Life

Author:Michel Houellebecq