#provoke

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#camp #certain #certain degree #changes #civil

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

#bloody #cast #country #disorders #hate

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. ↗

— Kurt Student

#after #apart #arrange #british #could

Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#provoke #should #writers

Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#emotions #funny #humor #manga #provoke

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ↗

— James Boswell

#complain #lash #provoked #smarts #who

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result. ↗

— Alex Cox

#abroad #allowed #get #killed #level

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#correction #deserves #doubtless #editor #enough

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#childhood #provokes #reach #responses #right