“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.” PeopleThinkingHumansImportantStoriesSidesDarkFireViolenceFashionHuman NatureSittingTraditionDietsCynicismBrutalityDark SideSitting AroundStaples Author:Eric Stoltz
“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.” WayMayRealHelpingLightSocialWealthStruggleProgressViolenceMankindFashionPositionMassTechniqueExcellentBrutalCrudeRenounceSocial ProgressSocial SystemsPremium Author:A. J. Muste
“Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.” GrowsMoralGrowing UpViolenceFashionFantasticVainAssaultFrivolousSemblance Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.” YearsHas BeensFactsPoliticalPoliticsCommunityLeadershipPartyViolenceFashionPolicyEthicsTwentiesTownsSurpriseViolentPolitical PartiesStunningSurprise MePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it looks on the page that encourages it to be played in a certain fashion.” WayLooksCertainViolenceFashionPagesNotes Author:Nico Muhly
“I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me.” ThinkingWorldWantedFilmGirlInterestingViolenceHeardFashionTeenageMasculinityCombiningTeenage GirlFashion World Author:Elle Fanning