Quotes About Violent Television

#1. Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.

John Eldredge

#2. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

J. Michael Straczynski

#3. All that a pacifist can undertake
but it is a very great deal
is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Vera Brittain

#4. 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

#5. If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.

Bill Maher

#6. But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Aaron Spelling

#7. Man, for being a psychologist, you sure are shit at reading women.

Jamie Michele

#8. My heart is broken, broken in a way that will never be healed, broken in a way that feels like it's going to kill me, too, right here on this stupid, freezing beach

Patrick Ness

#9. I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Anna Deavere Smith

#10. Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

George Carlin

#11. Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Gloria Swanson

#12. I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. True authority is not overcome by greater numbers.

Frank Carlyle

#14. We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#15. We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

Dan Gilroy

#16. That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#17. Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Richard King

#18. Find the peace, and then light will find you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. 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