Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.
I want the government in the DRC and everywhere where gender inequality is a problem, it's not only an African problem, to take this seriously, also to do everything they can to ensure that we put an end to impunity, to address the problem of impunity and also to assist the women; to empower women, to make sure that they have a voice and a seat at the table where decisions are made.
My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there. They did not want that; they chose to keep me in Russia.
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?