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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
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
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
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
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
The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals. -- Mason Cooley
Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair. -- Dalai Lama
I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. -- Jeff Lemire
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco. -- David Grossman
The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself. -- Kathy Change
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate. -- Hugh Mackay
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
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
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

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