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  • There is no doubt that Kerensky is a provocator, but we do not consider it right for Russian men to be shooting Russian men.

    Chapter 7. The Revolutionary Front 1922

  • Well, you dirty spy, you rotten agent provocator, you can go back and tell whatever skunk is paying you blood-money for betraying your brothers that he’s wasting his coin.

    Scene VII. The Hairy Ape 1922

  • The German has been the provocator and leader of all modern armaments.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

  • The subtle and manifold influence for evil of the Napoleonic episode as a school of violence, as a sower of national hatreds, as the direct provocator of obscurantism and reaction, of political tyranny and injustice, cannot well be exaggerated.

    Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

  • In refusing the yoke of misery, the workingman revolts in the fullness of his rights; illegality is committed by the capitalist class when it becomes a provocator by trying to violate a right which it has itself consecrated. "

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

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