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The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. -- S. Robson Walton
I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry. -- Ivana Milicevic
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. -- S. Robson Walton
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco. -- David Grossman
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. -- Samantha Morton
I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. -- Jeff Lemire
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society. -- Richard King
The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose. -- Diane Ladd
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society. -- Michael Haneke
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. -- Ron Paul
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence. -- Kurt Schrader
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. -- Dean Koontz
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. -- Gwen Moore
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. -- Matt Gonzalez
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society. -- bell hooks
There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be. -- Allan Houston
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
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable. -- Michael Ignatieff
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution. -- Richard Holbrooke
Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security. -- Susan Rice
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. -- Bayard Rustin
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. -- bell hooks
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. -- Debasish Mridha
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society. -- Pope John Paul II
No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent -- Nelson Mandela
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. -- B. F. Skinner
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If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals. -- Robert Thurman
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. -- Stanley Crouch
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. -- Nick Cave
Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society. -- Inga Muscio
I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. -- Luke Ford
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence... -- Shakira
The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society. -- Dustin Clare
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
The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence. -- Naomi Klein
Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. -- Margaret Mead
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul. -- Robert Kennedy
I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence. -- Pierre Trudeau
The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage. -- Pope Francis
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle. -- Christiane Northrup
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. -- Ayn Rand
When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you. -- Kevin Powell
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks. -- Henry Giroux
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. -- Rollo May

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