Provocation Quotes

• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspiración, Libro, Lectura

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Taken, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Un guerrero siempre es consciente de por qué merece la pena luchar. No entra en combate por cosas que no le conciernen, y nunca pierde el tiempo con provocaciones.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Doe

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• El autocontrol es la esencia misma del carácter. Ser capaz de mirar a un hombre directamente a los ojos, con calma y deliberadamente, sin la menor alteración de temperamento bajo una provocación extrema, da una sensación de poder que ninguna otra cosa puede dar. Sentir que uno es siempre, no a veces, dueño de sí mismo, da dignidad y fuerza al carácter, lo refuerza, lo sostiene por todos lados, como ninguna otra cosa puede hacerlo. Esta es la culminación del dominio del pensamiento.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ojo, Carácter, Hombres

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). "Paz, Poder y Abundancia: Antes de que un hombre pueda elevarse, debe elevar su pensamiento", p.132, e-artnow

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• Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ill Tempered, Show Me, Shows

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• El valor es sólo una acumulación de pequeños pasos.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Running, Small Steps, Accumulation

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• We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

  Samuel Richardson

  Temptation, Goodness, Be Good

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• La guerra es la locura más trágica y estúpida de la humanidad; buscar o aconsejar su provocación deliberada es un crimen negro contra todos los hombres.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Guerra, Estúpidos, Hombres

  Ejercicios de graduación en la Academia Militar de los Estados Unidos, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. 3 de junio de 1947.

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• I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Distance, Fall, Expression

  "'¿Quieres mi reacción? Tendrás mi silencio'". Entrevista con Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. 19 de noviembre de 2012.

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• To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

  John Tillotson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Mind

  John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.391

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• A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Gentleman, Strikes

  H.L. Mencken "Un pequeño libro en Do mayor", Рипол Классик

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• All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

  Wilson Mizner

  Anger, Long, Scripture

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• You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Courage, Believe, Thinking

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• Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Revenge, War, Defense

  "On the Republic. On the Laws".

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• I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Thinking, Answers

  Fuente: www.artpractical.com

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• There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Regret, Anger, Men

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• Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Needs, Enmity

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press

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• If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Walking Away, Care, Ranking

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• El principal objetivo de la interpretación no es instruir, sino provocar.

  Freeman Tilden

  Instruction, Interpretation, Chiefs

  Freeman Tilden (2009). "Interpreting Our Heritage", p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• La libertad incluye el derecho a decir lo que otros pueden objetar y resentir... La esencia de la ciudadanía es ser tolerante con las palabras fuertes y provocadoras.

  John Diefenbaker

  Strong, Essence, Freedom Of Speech

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). "The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker" (El ingenio y la sabiduría de John Diefenbaker), Hurtig Trade

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• Los que se empeñan en sentirse "ofendidos" encontrarán una provocación en alguna parte. No podemos adaptarnos lo suficiente para complacer a los fanáticos, y es degradante intentarlo.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Determined, Enough, Please

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Practice, Violence

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• H. L. Mencken dijo que "todo hombre decente se avergüenza del gobierno bajo el que vive". A estas alturas, sin embargo, ya no me avergüenzo, porque no me identifico con el gobierno bajo el que vivo. Más bien lo considero una organización criminal que, sin provocación alguna, ha decidido declarar la guerra a mis justos derechos, no sólo a los míos, por supuesto, sino a los de todos. Aunque esta vil empresa es mi problema, porque me roba y me acosa implacablemente y sin piedad, no es mi responsabilidad: el clavo no es el martillo.

  Robert Higgs

  Guerra, Responsabilidad, Hombres

  Robert Higgs (2007). "Ni libertad ni seguridad: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government", Independent Inst

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• Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Asks, Antipathy

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197

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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  Idries Shah

  Creer, Pasado, Gente

  Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.227, Octagon Press Ltd

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