Provoking Quotes

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

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

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

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

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

No man provokes me with impunity.

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

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

One sin another doth provoke.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, ' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

As I think therefore I amAm I more if I think more?

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.