“I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.” PlayGamesViolentVideoUltrasViolent Video Games Author:Cory Monteith
“'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.” ChildrenCharacterStoriesUsedGamesWeaponsViolentVideoGorgeousGood StoryViolent Video Games Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.
“What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!” LooksPlayKidsGamesEntertainmentViolentVideoNakedCrueltyTortureShockingPornographyViolent Video Games Author:David LaChapelle
“We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.” CareGamesDon't CareViolentVideoFramersTimes Are ChangingViolent Video GamesGame Time Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.” BelieveKidsFilmYoungGamesViolenceGood ThingsCarefulViolentVideoViolent Video Games Author:Spike Lee
“I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'” MenWantCharacterHelpingGuyGamesShotsDiedBusyViolentVideoHeyPerformingHospitalsSurgeryThis GuyLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me AloneComputer GamesPlaying Video GamesJust Leave Me AloneViolent Video Games Author:Demetri Martin
“Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.” WantHas BeensGamesViolentVideoGarbageTossNuisanceGarbage CansViolent Video Games Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.” ChildrenSchoolGamesPoorPlayerViolenceMediaYouthBehaviorPerformancesIncreaseViolentVideoDataAggressiveVery StrongParticipatingAntisocialDelinquencyAntisocial BehaviorViolent Video Games Author:Leland Yee
“There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...” PeopleCountryGamesViolenceIndustryShadowSellsViolentVideoViciousCallousViolent Video Games Author:Wayne LaPierre
“Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.” ChildrenGovernmentTodayGamesCasesRecordsViolenceModernMediaTelevisionJudgingTheaterAvailableTinyViolentVideoExposedFractionsMovie TheaterMedia ViolenceViolent Video Games Author:Richard Posner
“Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.” ShouldMindYoungGamesKnowingEffectsIgnoranceBenefitsResearchCongressViolentVideoFundNot KnowingPlaying GamesYoung MindsViolent Video Games Author:Barack Obama
“So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?” IfsShouldFallGamesViolenceMediaCrimeTvsRateViolentVideoCinemaViolent CrimesCrime RatesMedia ViolenceViolent Video Games Author:Hugh Mackay