Quotes about Provoke

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don't provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.

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

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.