Quotes About Violent Media

#1. Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.

Po Bronson

#2. The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

Henry Giroux

#3. We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease..

Eckhart Tolle

#4. But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Stanley Crouch

#5. I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Sam Mendes

#6. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

Ivan Reitman

#7. Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

Peter Drucker

#8. 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

#9. We don't do sensible things. This is America.

Bill Maher

#10. It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

Noam Chomsky

#11. The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

Brandon Stanton

#12. The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.

Yang Lan

#13. Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Damien Hirst

#14. I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.

Anna Quindlen

#15. 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

#16. If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

Jerry Brown

#18. If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.

Andy Andrews

#19. Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

LL Cool J

#20. The Bible says not to let the sun go down on your anger,' Dad said. 'I've applied that to our marriage, and it's helped us work through plenty of problems and disappointments.'
'You've had problems?'
At the surprise in his tone, Mom laughed. 'Of course we have. We're both sinners, aren't we?

Jody Hedlund

#21. I've been exactly that lonly. You're not connected to anything. Some nights it feels like you're dying by the hour. You're so desperate you can't even attract the kind of person you once swore you'd never settle for.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

Plotinus

#23. To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#24. When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

Jackson Katz

#25. The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

John Piper

#26. stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.

AVA.

#27. 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