Quotes of: Provocative Keyword

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

'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...

Michael Haneke

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable ...

Lynn Margulis

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

On the State of Egypt: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections

Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts – children – into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a wonder tea...

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

I naturally want to be provocative.

Iggy Azalea

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Michael Douglas

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socia...

Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Robin Wright

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

Judy Gold