Sex And Violence Quotes

#1. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.

Bakari Kitwana

#2. Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

Cormega

#3. Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

David Cronenberg

#4. When we started, we were from the South and we looked the part. Plus there was sex and violence on our first album. People immediately attached themselves to it, especially outside of America, because they see the South as a mythical place.

Caleb Followill

#5. So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Dick Van Dyke

#6. A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

Joe Bob Briggs

#8. Oh yes. I was telling you about my research into the old Norse sagas- the mythology of ancient Scandinavia. Have you read them?"
"Uh no."
"You'd like them, Cassie." He waved the hand with the chalk in it. "All sex and violence."
I frowned. "Why would you think that I'd-

Karen Chance

#9. The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

Norman Lear

#10. Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?

Nicholas Kristof

#11. Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

Jeannine Parvati Baker

#12. I can't rely upon sex and violence to sell my books

Libi Astaire

#13. It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

Alice Cooper

#14. Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

Lana Wachowski

#17. Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.

James Carlos Blake

#18. They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

Alice Cooper

#19. I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

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

Mason Cooley

#21. I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an audience that this horrible thing is enjoyable. The suffering just gets out of hand too much. It becomes pornographic.

Susan Sarandon

#22. Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

Wim Wenders

#23. I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

Jonah Goldberg

#24. If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Anthony Burgess

#25. Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.

Camille Paglia

#26. Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary ... It contains far too much sex and violence.

Bryan Talbot

#27. The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.

Martin Hopkins

#28. If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act ... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming ... the government stands ready to step in.

Janet Reno

#29. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...

Martin Hopkins

#30. Rape is a crime of violence and sex is the weapon.

Janet Bode

#31. I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Alan Ball

#32. Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

William H. Macy

#33. It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.

Drew Waters

#34. The feel of her skin as she struggled beneath, the life inside, the death without. The breaching of life and death, of survival uncaged inside him: a dark beast with violence and sex in its soul.
In his soul.

Mav Skye

#35. Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

Eve Ensler

#36. I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies that have a redemptive message. I want to tell good quality stories and take out the derogatory sex, violence and language.

Drew Waters

#37. The fantasy comes from that, and from a culture that eroticizes violence against women, and leftover puritanical guilt about sex that tells us we're not allowed to choose it and want it for ourselves, and from God only knows where else.

Lilah Pace

#38. The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.

C.M. Stunich

#39. Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating.

Richard K. Morgan

#40. In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

Charlton Heston

#41. They give an "X" rating to flicks
Where sex is the center of kicks,
While violence and war
Are considered fit for
Small children no older than six.

Norman W. Storer

#42. We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

Mark Ruffalo

#43. Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge on the exploitative, he sometimes reveals an unexpected sympathy with dominated women.

Zoe Brigley

#44. The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#45. Sex needed to be a little rough and crude to balance out the elegance. A touch of tasteful violence goes a long way.

Karina Halle

#46. He wanted me to be clean, and I'd sullied myself, debased myself, not with sex but violence. I was supposed to be his escape, and I'd walked into a trap where I was empowered to commit murder.

Pepper Winters

#47. With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.

Tom Spanbauer

#48. This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

John Mellencamp

#49. I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

William H. Macy

#50. A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

B.F. Skinner

#51. Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.

Patti Feuereisen

#52. If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.

William Monahan

#53. Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.

Charlee Jacob

#54. A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.

Nenia Campbell

#55. Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.

Lee Tamahori

#56. A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

Kim Hunter

#57. Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

Zig Ziglar

#58. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

Gloria Steinem

#59. But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of it - and the consequences of trying to make it seem real. The male sex is very like that.

John Stoltenberg

#60. Everyone seemed to think that violence was an acceptable risk and a foregone conclusion for prostitutes, call girls and streetwalkers alike. There was almost an air of, well, what did she expect? What did she expect, indeed? To be allowed to live?

Jeannette De Beauvoir

#61. It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.

Bob Saget

#62. BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

Ambrose Bierce

#63. Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Karin Slaughter

#64. Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

Gloria Steinem

#65. Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance.

Thomas Pynchon

#66. There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

Michael Scott

#67. I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

Courtney Love

#68. I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Alexander Walker

#69. In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!

Manohla Dargis

#70. As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

Ian Fleming

#71. Glenn ... I wasn't expecting this. He's not after my blood, and we like the same stuff."
From the rearview mirror, Jenks snickered. "Guns, violence, crime scene photos, leather, sex, and women. Yeah, I can see that."
(Ivy and Jenks)

Kim Harrison

#72. One of those largish US women writers on the metaphysics of shagging had declared, as if it were a revelation - and a terrible one - that the sex act inevitably entailed violence on the female. Well, of course it did, you well-meaning, trite, benighted duck.

Bill James

#73. This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it

Craig Ferguson

#74. All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Ray Winstone

#75. You don't need to make shows about sex and drugs and violence to get ratings.

Mark Burnett

#76. My mission is to offend and insult the bourgeois defenders of the status quo, and entertain those who enjoy sex, violence and sick humour in their face and without apology.

Ian Martin

#77. We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Anna C. Salter

#78. Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.

Douglas Sadownick

#79. The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Jesse Jackson

#80. Violence and sex were two sides of the same coin, were they not?

Sarah MacLean

#81. Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.

Miya Yamanouchi

#82. If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

Judith Martin