Quotes About Awareness

A lot of new dads don't realise that you can't take your 5-year-old along to see something like 'The Avengers.' Modern superhero films are too violent, and the dialogue is far too convoluted for a child.

Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.

Adults should be intelligent enough to know what they want - if you don't like it, then don't consume it. A rating system for kids and teens is more important. Especially for violent shows.

I'm not any more sexist, racist or violent than the world around me.

I want to be clear that violent crime isn't just a St. Louis or Kansas City problem.

I managed to escape a violent carjacking. It was a very traumatizing point in my life and it made me realized that many women in South Africa are affected by crimes like this.

My violent music helps most kids avoid that street life because it scares them. My fans aren't blind to the consequences.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.

An ex-boyfriend of mine is living with HIV. He has an undetectable viral load so I know first-hand how this can affect people in a serodiscordant couple - which is where one partner is HIV-negative and one is HIV-positive.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.

The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.