Quotes About Culture

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.

I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where militarism and violence are reduced almost to be nonexistent.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

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.

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

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

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.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

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

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

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

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

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