#violence

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#ever #i #mainstream #movie #sex

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#distinguished #men #rather #than #their

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

#crime #individual #law #own #state

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. ↗

— Jean Genet

#disturbs #violence #you

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#before #ever #intensely #make #more

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure." ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#call #hate #like #romance #seeing

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#assert #deserved #did #folly #healthy

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. ↗

— Alan Brien

#repartee #violence

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#passion #tear #veil #violence #life

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#audience #better #doing #i #make