“I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.” KindAmericaViolencePromiseResponseContemporaryConsumersFulfilmentSardonic Book:White Noise: Text and Criticism Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism
“I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.” KindMeanStruggleViolenceTerribleAll KindsAbsurdityGratificationImmediate Gratification Author:John Maus
“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
“The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.” KindBeautifulYoungAnimalViolenceProtectInstinctImpulse Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.” MenKindBigsHappensSpeakIssuesViolenceThings HappenOur TimeAddressesInterventionAtrocitiesViolence Against WomenInhumanityInhumanity To Man Author:Angelina Jolie
“In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.” PeopleKindDifferentHateViolenceNew YorkHatredDifferent KindsUncommon Author:Fran Lebowitz
“When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.” WorldKindHelpingMovingSocialWorryViolenceEconomicTerrorismLaddersPoorestHelp The Poor Author:Colin Powell
“By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.” KindBreakViolencePeacefulChainsBe KindContributingReacting Author:Sharon Gannon
“There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated graphics or photography or sound systems, just keep getting better and better until there is little difference between an animal-based protein and a plant-based one, or farm-produced versus cultured meat. That will make it easy for people to make the kinds of choices that will usher in a world with far less violence.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesHardChoicesEasySoundDifferencesPerfectAnimalViolenceProductsComputerPhotographyPlantSeekingAlternativesMeatGet BetterEggsFarmsMilkVersusProteinInnovatorsSound Systems Author:Wayne Pacelle
“When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.” KindDoeGovernmentViolenceAll KindsCommentEgyptBin LadenEgyptian Author:Nabil Elaraby
“I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.” FirstsKindTwoWholeGuyHalfViolencePerspectiveValleysBad Guys Author:Ti West
“Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy was acting with him. It was a surreal thing to watch. When you watch the movie [Valley of Violence], you just kind of accept it. But if you do think about how we show - there's a dog and a movie star interacting - and you buy it. That's crazy.” IfsThinkingKindRealShowsStarsFeltActingAcceptingWatchesViolenceCrazyDogValleysMovie StarSurrealInteracting Author:Ti West
“Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing - those details are the things that are interesting to me. So just acknowledging we don't have a lot of money [for Valley of Violence], so we're going to make a Western that's kind of contained, but we're going to make it super charismatic and we're going to make it memorable for what it is as opposed to what we couldn't afford.” KindInterestingViolenceShotsWesternDetailsMemorableValleysLots Of MoneyCharismaticCool ThingsToby Author:Ti West
“Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingTryingKindChildrenWarProblemHappensAgeFormStuffViolenceLaborSightStuckWitnessBe YouElsewhereLive Your LifeGlobalizationVictimizationChild LaborSweatshops Author:Robert Hass
“I don't know how I can feel safe with Donald Trump, who bragged about sexual assault having the most power of anyone in America, maybe the world. What does that say to every child, to every person who has been sexually assaulted, to every person in a domestic-violence situation, to anybody who has to report that kind of crime?” KnowsWorldFeelsKindChildrenPersonsDoeHas BeensI CanAmericaSituationKnow HowViolenceCrimeTrumpSafeReportsAssaultDomestic ViolenceSexuallySexual Assault Author:Jennifer Pozner
“Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.” WellsKindCharacterWantedTogetherFictionComedyViolenceDogWorking TogetherReservoirsPulpReservoir Dogs Author:Seth Rogen
“I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.” WantKindLeftViolenceViolent Author:David Duke
“To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.” FirstsKindSufferingViewsViolenceFoundationAll Kinds Author:Nhat Hanh
“Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.” PeopleHumansWellsKindHelpingCultureViolenceMagicPeriodsTransformationSacredAll KindsNarrativeAffirmationHuman HistoryDesolation Author:Adrienne Rich
“I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories being told in mainstream American politics. The issues that I think most about - how many people's lives are being affected by prisons and policing, how many people's lives are being affected by immigration enforcement and deportation - those stories aren't being touched, let alone told, in mainstream politics.” PeopleThinkingKindStoriesIssuesViolenceHugePrisonImmigrationTouchedBarriersAffectedDividesMainstreamEnforcementAmerican PoliticsDeportation Author:Grace Dunham
“I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.” KindChildrenYoungViolenceYoung ChildrenMindless Author:William H. Macy
“If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.” IfsKindImportantStatesEnoughUseLawForceViolenceAffairInternationalTerroristDoctrineRevolutionaryGrantsHarborsInternational LawInternational AffairsKissinger Author:Noam Chomsky
“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.” MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence Author:Laura Kipnis
“I denounced Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric. And he knows exactly what he's doing. This is not the Donald Trump who denounced David Duke in 1991. This is a guy who's now soaking up this hate and his spilling it back out.” KindGuyHateViolenceRhetoric Author:Donna Brazile
“Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.” WorldWritingKindUnderstandingBrainViolenceTroubleInsightNeighborFind Me Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.” KindViolence Author:Jonathan Raymond
“terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not like stealing from someone's house, or even assassinating someone. There are very complex ideological reasons behind these almost abstract acts of violence.” KindReasonHouseInterestingViolenceCrimeTerrorismDrivenStealingImpulseAbstractIdeological Author:Karan Mahajan
“I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?” KindArtCultureEmotionViolenceGunMurderExcellencePop CultureTarantino Author:Jeff Buckley
“I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.” PeopleThinkingKindAudienceViolenceLosingMurderPropertyThoughtfulMatureDehumanization Author:Karyn Kusama
“I've always argue against emotions. You're seeing intimidating threats against anchors by people in the Trump campaign. You see physical violence at rallies, you see a man handling of a reporter, Michelle Fields. You have Trump talking about opening this liberal law - these libel laws to protect feelings. What you're seeing here is kind of a mob mentality.” PeopleMenKindFeelingsEmotionViolenceProtectThreatArguingMentalityIntimidating Author:Eric Bolling
“Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentPresidentViolenceHelpfulRhetoricProvokingNorth KoreaKoreanUs PresidentNorth Korean Author:Charles K. Armstrong
“I think any time you have any kind of social ill, not just domestic violence...as much as it's about the act, the obvious theme of domestic violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month is also about how men deal with their emotions. It's not just like who gets brutalized; sometimes it's women that are abusing men, too. I think it's just an opportunity for us to look at ourselves. How do we treat each other? Why do we treat each other that way?” ThinkingMenKindSometimesOpportunityEmotionViolenceAwarenessIllObviousDomestic Violence Author:Malik Yoba
“Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.” PeopleThinkingGivingKindValuesNaturalViolenceStuckPathetic Author:Sasha Grey