Quotes About Society

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

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.

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

Random violence is incredibly infectious.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

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.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

Leading from a place of hate only fuels hateful and violent acts across our country.

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.