Shock value is the potential of an action (as a public execution), image, text, or other form of communication to provoke a reaction of disgust, shock, anger, fear, or similar negative emotions.
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Famous quotes containing the word shock:
“I was not long since in a company where I wot not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)