As Gordon Liddy said, if your responses to provocation are wildly out of proportion to those provocations, and unpredictable, nobody will provoke you.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/03/if-voting-made-any-difference-they-wouldnt-let-us-do-it/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/01/bob-kerrey-fulbright-university-and-the-neoliberal-erasure-of-history/