Culture Of Violence Quotes

#1. Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.

Bell Hooks

#2. Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#3. To claim that America's "culture of violence" is responsible for school shootings is tantamount to cigarette company executives declaring that environmental pollution is the chief cause of lung cancer.

Stephen King

#4. I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

Ian MacKaye

#5. The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

Marianne Williamson

#6. We live in a culture of violence.

Bryant McGill

#7. Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

Bryant McGill

#8. We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

Bryant McGill

#9. We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.

Bryant McGill

#10. In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Kurt Schrader

#11. One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about, .

Wayne LaPierre

#12. People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Nick Hornby

#13. Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Stephen King

#14. We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Laurence Tribe

#15. Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

Bryant McGill

#16. The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Stephen King

#17. We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Joe Manchin

#18. War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

Elise M. Boulding

#19. The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

Jeff Cooper

#21. No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.

Kiran Nagarkar

#22. As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.

Lundy Bancroft

#23. I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence.

Tarif Naaz

#24. I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

Jack Bowman

#25. A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

T.F. Hodge

#26. Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

Natasha Leggero

#27. A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.

Nenia Campbell

#28. In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence. Maybe people have a deep congenital awareness that no civilization lasts forever, that the most peaceful prosperity will someday have to end, or maybe it's just human nature

Jonathan Franzen

#29. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Katherine Dunn

#30. Are we not, ethically speaking, obligated to stop its (violence) further dissemination, to consider our role in instigating it, and to forment and cultivate another sense of a culturally and religiously diverse global political culture?

Judith Butler

#31. Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Auliq Ice

#32. There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children ... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

Jackson Katz

#33. Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

Lance Loud

#34. As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

Joaquin Phoenix

#35. Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

Widad Akreyi

#36. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.

Steven Pinker

#37. The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

Matt Taibbi

#38. One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

Geoff Mulgan

#39. In a culture dominated, if not by violence, then certainly by overheated reports of it dished out by a ratings-starved news media, it reassured her that the love of peace and natural order was still extant in the human soul.

Nevada Barr

#40. I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

H. Rap Brown

#41. Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Inga Muscio

#42. Women are no more important than any other potential victims, but we are the primary targets of the messages and myths that sustain rape culture. We're the ones asked to change our behavior, limit our movements, and take full responsibility for the prevention of sexual violence in society.

Kate Harding

#43. The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Gloria Steinem

#44. Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

Dov Charney

#45. Find your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12

Victoria Lorient-Faibish

#46. Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Benazir Bhutto

#47. I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

Nick Love

#48. In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by its good pros remains a bastion of decency, a place where virtue is rewarded and cheating exposed.

Eamon Dunphy

#49. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Charlotte Bunch

#50. You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.

Andrea Dworkin

#52. The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.

Bryan Stevenson

#53. What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency.

Bocafloja

#54. Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Chaim Potok

#55. New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures of Britney Spears's vagina getting out of a car. Television has desensitizes us to violence, and porn has desensitized us to people getting shot in the eye.

Bill Maher

#56. I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

John Cage

#57. If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power and domination, and thus all forms of battery are linked.

Bell Hooks

#58. Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.

Camille Paglia

#59. Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace

Kofi Annan

#60. This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It's a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity.

Janet Mock

#61. According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes.
Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior, p109

Doris Layton MacKenzie

#62. The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

Volkmar Sigusch

#63. Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.

Miya Yamanouchi