Social Violence Quotes

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Hate crimes impact not just individuals but entire communities. When a family is attacked because of the color of their skin, it's not just the family that feels violated, but every resident of that neighborhood.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold on American society (and in other parts of the world) along with the savage social costs they have enacted, the forms of social, political, and economic violence that young people are protesting against, as well as the violence waged in response to their protests, will become impossible to recognize and act on.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.