Media violence Quotes

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major…

— Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Back in the Clinton White House, I was a middling staffer on the Domestic Policy Council, working on issues ranging from the…

— Neera Tanden

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

— David Grossman

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

— Hugh Mackay

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema,…

— Hugh Mackay

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love…

— Bernice King

By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is…

— Jean Illsley Clarke

Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed.…

— Richard Posner

“The tendency to want what has been banned and therefore to presume that it is more worthwhile is not limited to such…

— Robert B. Cialdini