“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveUseHandsSeemsFilmTalkingAudienceViolenceGoes OnBalanceDirectorsPressesDon't BelieveDenyAssumptionMovieCensorshipOffendedImplicationsBrillianceBrutalityThugFreedom Of The PressDazzling Author:Pauline Kael
“Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'” WayTogetherReligiousLeaderViolenceGoes OnHatredMeetingsDialogueReligious Leaders Author:Elton John
“If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.” IfsDoeRealityAgePoliticsPresidentLeadershipJusticeHistoryViolencePolicyGoes OnProtectStrategyCommittedTerrorismIdeologyPresident ObamaForeign PolicyOffensiveSyriaIsisHomelandBlundersBaghdad Author:Lindsey Graham
“Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.” HumansFeelingsProblemRealityHuman BeingsViolencePlanetsGoes OnNo ProblemLoveliness Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.” ThinkingSeemsChoicesViolenceCenturyGoes OnVietnamVery SadPerpetuating Author:Yoko Ono
“I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.” PeopleHumansPersonsI CanWatchesViolenceGoes OnShotsViolentRelateShootingGuessingRampageViolent Movies Author:Zoe Helene
“That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.” ThinkingRealizingViolenceSubjectsGoes OnBasesDomestic ViolenceTouchy Author:LaToya Jackson
“When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.” CausesViolenceGoes OnTerribleScalesLocalsCrueltyDividedKentuckyLarge ScaleHeartlessness Author:Wendell Berry