“I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.” IfsThinkingWritingPainFilmCertainViolenceTelevisionDramaIntelligentSakeHolesInstanceAgentsOffensiveTelevision Drama Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.” WorldGovernmentTodayViolenceMassCommittedInstanceBordersPrincipalWorld Today Author:Susan Sontag
“Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.” WorldLife IsDifficultViolenceActivityInstanceHeavenlySweetestActs Of Love Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text) Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
“Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.” IfsWayEndsStatesReasonNationsSocialJusticeLove IsViolencePureSocial JusticeBlindInstanceCommunismReasonableBad ThingsFascismSchemesAtheisticPure LoveBlind Love Author:Francis George
“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.” IfsKindRealCharacterBodyFictionViolenceExampleFitScriptsInstanceNarrativeGenreEncountersMinoritiesNormMessyLisbeth Salander Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.” ShouldMayFactsProblemForceViolenceParticularBiggerPoliceCommittedInstanceEngagedOfficersIncidentsCover UpsActs Of ViolenceBigger ProblemsPolice Violence Author:Hakeem Jeffries
“I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an audience that this horrible thing is enjoyable. The suffering just gets out of hand too much. It becomes pornographic.” ThinkingHandsSufferingSexAudienceToo MuchViolenceTroubleHorribleInstanceEnjoyableMixingHorrible Things Author:Susan Sarandon
“The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.” EndsViolenceInstanceEnd TimesInstability Author:Greg Laurie
“The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.” MayMatterMightUsedBlackEffortAttentionViolenceInstanceBlack Lives MatterPolicemenBlack LivesUnjustified Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsAgeDiesCausesViolenceFiguresSouthMalesMedicalInstanceStatisticsDo You KnowSouth Africa Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.” WorldFactsHomeTodayViolenceSecurityIgnoranceDependsConnectionsClaimsProsperityAccessInstanceNovelistsBritainExploitationPrevailingDickensEpistemologyManifold Author:Pankaj Mishra