Quotes about Provocation

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things. Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.

A hit dog will holler.

I feel like people just try and throw a shot at me just so I can respond.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.