#violent

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#countries #country #factors #feel #i

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#culture #degree #find #hatred #lowest

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#break #breaking #flesh #happens #like

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#any #crime #demons #faces #feeling

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were. ↗

— Patty Hearst

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One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. ↗

— Eric Holder

#coincidence #crime #deal #dysfunction #got

We play a violent sport. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#violent

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#alone #because #character #doing #funny

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? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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