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“Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.”

Millions Violence Kings Twenties Oneself Secure Exposed Monarchs

Book:Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)

Source: Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)

“It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.”

Children Book Seems Culture Girl Saws Violence Perception Reasonable Exposed Censorship Ruined Pornography Popular Culture Good Girl Protecting Children

Author:Molly Ivins

“The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.”

Men World Hard Age Kindness Novel Virtue Violence He Man Hard Work Greed Cruelty Hypocrisy Exposed Sanctity Victorian Dickens Domestic Life Probity Victorian Age

Author:Robert Gottlieb

“Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.”

Persons Wealth Violence Envy Opposition Exposed Primitive Pope

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the form of, as it's called, the news. Then you wonder why the children are running around, doing the things in the streets, doing the things that they've seen the adults doing in the so-called news.”

Children Running Form Wonder Violence Streets News Adults Protection Exposed

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.”

Stills Mother Father Violence Stomach Exposed Pregnant Womb Were Pregnant

Author:Jim Goad

“Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.”

Want Children Violence My Children Exposed Glorification

Author:William H. Macy