“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.” NeedsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookIdeasHandsMightWould BeLanguageSupportViolenceFailingTeachingMiddleExpressionKissingAdultsTreatsCommittedLikesAbsurdGradesAppropriateCitizenshipTopicsOccasionalOrientationValidationExplicitHolding HandsBad WritingBad Language Author:Rick Riordan
“I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.” LanguageViolenceGrewComfortableGrew UpFamiliarTemper Author:Greg Bryk
“Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.” LanguageSilenceViolenceSourceIntegrityUniversalExcellenceMetaphorWorking ItFormalSilence IsMute Author:Ihab Hassan
“People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.” PeopleWayWantNeedsGivingAbleLanguageTakenViolenceCorporateOver ItMentalityToysHonoredRespondingShallowness Author:Joan Larkin
“I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.” LooksMadeLanguageDecisionClassViolenceStreetsMinesPagesDeterminationCrossesThirdsDeterminedWorking Class Book:Trash Source: Trash
“In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?” ChildrenSoulSelfDoneAmericaPastNamesLanguageChurchJusticeLibertyViolenceGroupsMilitaryShotsDeserveDignityPrisonSouthDecadesViolentOppressionPreservesConcentrationCampsMexicoDictatorshipPeasantsOver The PastPeace And JusticeChileSouth AmericaConcentration CampEuphemism Author:Isabel Fonseca
“When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.” WorldLanguageAttentionPovertyViolenceRacismPaidCarefulDivorceSexismPollutionGiverPrecisionUtopianFuturisticBad WordFluency Author:Lois Lowry
“For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.” WayWantFirstsMeanLittlesStillsRealCharacterFactsStoriesShowsRunningLanguageBitsSidesPoorQualityResponsibilitySituationStruggleViolenceLittle BitDigitalAvenuesPoor Quality Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.” FatherLanguageViolenceGenerationsLandTearsBearsMarkMurderWitnessPoisonBitternessJewelsLamentYiddishExpulsionPrecious Jewels Author:I. L. Peretz
“What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.” DoeLanguageViolenceBritishEnglish LanguageEnglishmenLeaseSenseless Violence Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.” ThinkingFilmLanguageSexViolenceTelevisionTasteAbusePressesToleranceMainstreamGraphic Author:Charlton Heston
“I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.” FeelsLanguageViolenceIntelligentBritishEducatedNon Violence Author:Raj Thackeray
“I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.” PeopleUseMightTogetherSpiritualityLanguageViolenceExampleTheoryIslamCriticizeReligion And Politics Author:Talal Asad
“In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.” HumansPainFilmCultureGamesLanguageHuman BeingsViolenceSocietyWorstTvsCommunicationInternetConsequenceEverydayTraumaScreensIndifferenceTechnologicalEveryday LifeTransfersNumbAdrenalineMomentaryAdrenaline Rush Author:John Naisbitt
“I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies that have a redemptive message. I want to tell good quality stories and take out the derogatory sex, violence and language.” PeopleThinkingWantCharacterStoriesLanguageSexQualityViolenceMessagesGood QualityDerogatory Author:Drew Waters
“It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.” TryingStoriesFormLanguageSexViolencePureRelySilverGood StoryDerogatoryTaglines Author:Drew Waters
“Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.” WayShouldHumansLanguageForceViolenceDignityIrrelevantHuman Dignity Author:Shirin Ebadi
“It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.” ThinkingWayTodayLanguageSexBitsLevelsViolenceAcceptanceSwingsBack And Forth Author:Bob Saget
“I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.” PeopleEndsStoriesSchoolGirlLanguageTeacherViolenceProjectsHigh SchoolSlaveryReactionsLove StoryFamiliarKneesCourageousBrutalityJerkDallasStepfathersHistory TeacherDjangoKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Jamie Foxx
“Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.” ThinkingWayFeelsLanguageViolenceCommunicationInstrumentsViolentBehaveMeant To BeWay Of ThinkingButlers Author:Claudia Rankine
“How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives from one body to another. It becomes the thing in between the two bodies.” ThinkingTwoBodyLanguageViolenceShowing UpAvailability Author:Claudia Rankine
“I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.” FirstsCoursesLanguageViolenceCriticsMalesElderlyKoreanPortugueseBae Author:Deborah Smith
“I think some people at Doubleday worried about that a bit when Knockemstiff came out, but, with the exception of one or two people who complained that I didn't do justice to the many good people who lived in the holler, most of the local objections have been aimed at the violence and foul language.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTwoLanguageBitsJusticeViolenceLocalsWorriedExceptionGood PeopleFoulObjectionsFoul Language Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.” TwoAmericaLanguageViolenceJudgedBulletsArithmeticTwo Heads Author:Colin Firth
“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.” WarLanguageInterestImaginationPovertyViolenceRacismLaborPrisonEnvironmentalManifestationTortureCapitalistSensibilityMisogynyCapital Punishment Author:Lawrence Joseph