Provocation Quotes

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

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.