Provocation Quotes - Page 3

• Una buena marina no es una provocación a la guerra. Es la garantía más segura de la paz.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Navy

  Theodore Roosevelt (1916). "Fear God and Take Your Own Part", New York : George H. Doran

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Long

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• What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

  Martin Amis

  Priorities, Defense, Nuclear

  "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.

  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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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Todo tiene dos asas; una suave y manejable, la otra tal que no resiste ser tocada. Si, pues, tu hermano te hace una injuria, no la tomes por el asa dura y caliente, representándote a ti mismo todas las circunstancias agravantes del hecho; sino mira más bien el lado blando, y atenúalo tanto como sea posible, considerando la cercanía de la relación, y la larga amistad y familiaridad entre vosotros, obligaciones de bondad que una sola provocación no debería disolver. Y así tomarás el accidente por su asa manejable.

  Epictetus

  Hermano, Bondad, Dos

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• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Character, Judging

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• Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Men, Evil

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.21

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• The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Ego, Suffering

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• Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.

  Jacques Chirac

  Religious, Hurt, Passion

  "Chirac warns media over cartoons". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• El amor, para el hombre inferior, sigue siendo casi totalmente una cuestión física. La heroína que más admira es la que ofrece la provocación sexual más grosera; el héroe que hace que su mujer ponga los ojos en blanco es un falo peregrino.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hero, Eye, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.27, Knopf

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• A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

  Cate Blanchett

  Real, People, Documentaries

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". "Actress Roundtable" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Ocean, Thinking

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Egypt

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• The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength.

  Mike Pence

  Russia, Needs, Mets

  Fuente: www.politico.com

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• Pasar demasiado ansiosamente sobre una provocación pierde la guardia y abre el cuerpo; la calma y el ocio y la deliberación hacen el negocio mucho mejor.

  Jeremy Collier

  Body, Leisure, Retribution

  Jeremy Collier (1720). "Ensayos sobre varios temas morales: Parte III. ... Por Jeremy Collier, M.A.", p.31

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• The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Self, Curiosity, Ongoing

  "Caminando con su musa: Entrevista con Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, volumen 8, número 2, 1 th Of July de 2014, páginas 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. 22 de junio de 2013.

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• A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

  Edward Gibbon

  Vanity, Race, Desire

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.714, Modern Library

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• I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.

  Lars von Trier

  Purpose, Proud, Suits

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• Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Numbers, People, Enemy

  "Zbig Brzezinski: Israel’s Actions in Lebanon Essentially Amount to 'the Killing of Hostages'” by Steve Clemons, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Si permanecemos como un solo pueblo, bajo un gobierno eficiente, no está lejos el período en que podamos desafiar el daño material de las molestias externas; en que podamos adoptar una actitud tal que haga que la neutralidad que podamos decidir en cualquier momento sea escrupulosamente respetada; en que las naciones beligerantes, ante la imposibilidad de hacer adquisiciones sobre nosotros, no se arriesguen ligeramente a provocarnos; en que podamos elegir la paz o la guerra, según lo aconseje nuestro interés, guiado por la justicia.

  George Washington

  Attitude, War, Government

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.11

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• We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.

  Wu Bangguo

  Guerra, Pensamiento, Diferencias

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• My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Empowerment, Cinema

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• It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Real, Men, Reason Why

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.183, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• No creo que nada pueda hacer tanto por una habitación como un fuego resplandeciente en una chimenea atractiva. A los hombres y a los perros les encanta el fuego. Es el corazón de cualquier habitación y debería encenderse a la menor provocación.

  Dorothy Draper

  Perro, Creer, Corazón

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