#provoke

Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends. I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hurt #kill #provoke #forgiveness

Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#provoke #should #writers

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

— James Boswell

#complain #lash #provoked #smarts #who

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation. ↗

— Dick Armey

#another #attack #been #believe #consistent

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animosity #announcing #certain #compelling #dissent

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell. ↗

— Frank Miller

#attacked #burn #country #hell #i

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#already #be careful #bond #careful #got

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#i #like #provoke #readers #responses