Ability Quote by Dan Simmons

“Violence takes on many forms, sadly violence is such an everyday part of our lives that we have mostly become oblivious to it. It…

— Mango Wodzak

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

— Dalai Lama

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

— Nick Cave

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that…

— Steven Pinker

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe…

— Noam Chomsky

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part…

— Sam Shepard

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and…

— Kenneth Tynan

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

— Stanley Crouch

I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two…

— Emily Raboteau

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

— Ramsey Clark

“When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old men, women…

— Vasily Grossman