Quotes About Violence In Media

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

Jeff Lemire

#2. I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

Rachel Weisz

#3. When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage

Jayce O'Neal

#4. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

Gloria Steinem

#5. 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

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

Lou Reed

#7. Communication is a major key to building any strong relationship, whether it is the relationship one has with oneself or with others. Sinful communication weakens yourself, weakens those you care about, and thus weakens your team.

Shay Dawkins

#8. 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

#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. There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

Stefan Molyneux

#11. 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

#12. In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

Suze Orman

#13. The room hovered around me with great gentleness, as if the chairs and the tables and the walls were withholding their weight out of sympathy for my sudden frailty.

Sylvia Plath

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Mason Cooley

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

Dalai Lama

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

Hugh Mackay

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

Kathy Change

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Revolt is the right of the people

John Locke

#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. Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Aldo Leopold

#33. She moved closer to me, put her hands to my face, and kissed me softly on the lips.
God, it felt so good.
So perfect, so right ...
It felt so good, I nearly fell off the roof.

Kevin Brooks

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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