Provocation Quotes

You know what pressure is put on Belarus, ranging from open blackmail to attempted interference in our internal affairs from the West, and from small provocations to threat of extremist rallies from the opposition. - Alexander Lukashenko

Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; / Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go. - Bible

With this type of provocation, it becomes difficult for us to keep our people peaceful. - Shahid Shamsi

While it is understood that there was substantial provocation from a section of the Perth crowd, there is a standard required and a player needs to keep his emotions under some control. - Jeff Crowe

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, / Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: / When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. - Bible

What's important is for ... the Israelis and Palestinians, to remember that it's a time to maintain calm and to avoid any sort of provocation. We all want to go through this period with minimal violence. - Richard Boucher

What is occurring is a preparation not for a peaceful protest ... but for an act of provocation against law enforcement bodies to incite the use of force with the aim of causing chaos and confusion and seizing power. - Stepan Sukhorenko

We will be there to protest the government's provocations. - Effi Eitam

We were invaded by police, border police, riot squads, horses. This is a provocation. It's a show of strength. They've entered private property illegally, and we're very upset that the government is using these kind of tactics to try to scare people. - David Wilder