Quotes About Media And Violence

#1. What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,
for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn't look away. Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see beyond.

Mark Lawrence

#3. Truth cannot be hidden.
Love cannot be contained.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

Sara Gilbert

#5. The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

Lou Reed

#6. I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#7. The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

Ashley Judd

#8. Sexual desire, without Eros, wants it, the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#10. I've had an entrepreneurial mindset from a young age and I've been interested in companies and products that are a little bit different.

Andy Murray

#11. I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

Jeff Lemire

#12. So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Hugh Mackay

#13. The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#14. How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

Dennis Prager

#15. We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.

Roger Goodell

#16. I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

Jason Ritter

#17. Media was a battle ground. So was the internet. People began walking openly with their weapons, whether it was a gun or a camera. Drones were always skimming overhead, filming the violence of the second civil war of the United States.

Lindsay Anderson

#18. 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

#19. Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

David Grossman

#20. It is a fact that the human heart differs from all other species. While its function to the body is the same of all animals, its participation with human soul is both rhapsodic and fatal. -Rose

Kristen Heitzmann

#21. The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

Mason Cooley

#22. Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.

Richard Posner

#23. Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

Daniel Tosh

#24. The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Hugh Mackay

#25. The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence ... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

Kathy Change

#26. When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.

Michael Connelly

#27. I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Caleb Carr

#28. Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less ... in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No one talked about violence in the banlieues or race riots anymore. That was all passed over in silence.

Michel Houellebecq

#29. In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

Bell Hooks

#30. By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.

Jean Illsley Clarke

#31. Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

Dalai Lama

#32. Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

Eliza Griswold

#33. So tell me how you think this ends.

Chris Pavone

#34. Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

Deborah Prothrow-Stith

#35. There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Alva Myrdal

#36. I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

Margaret Cho

#37. Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

Francine Pascal

#38. During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

J.G. Ballard

#39. The mass media dwells on and perpetuates an ethic of domination and violence because our image makers have more intimate knowledge of these realities than they have with the realities of love.

Bell Hooks

#40. The whole point of their spectacular, yet limited, attacks was to manipulate the media into fanning fear and sectarian violence through one-sided reporting,

Michael J. MacLeod