Quotes About Media Violence

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

Hugh Mackay

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

Walt Disney Company

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

David Grossman

#6. We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#7. I trust you because I need you.

Mason Cooley

#8. 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

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

Lou Reed

#10. But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Jack Kerouac

#11. 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

#12. Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Atul Gawande

#13. 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

#14. As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

Nate Ruess

#15. I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.

Steve Guttenberg

#16. If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today.

Nettie Febus

#17. 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

#18. The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.

Jeff Olson

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

Pat Conroy

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

Dalai Lama

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

Kathy Change

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Ever since the day my father died I've understood. So long as the king lives, I will never be free of him.

Laura Thalassa

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

Mason Cooley

#30. Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

Mary Baker Eddy

#31. 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

#32. It ain't ever what you get for puttin' in all the hard work, it's what all the hard work gonna make you become.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Jeff Lemire