Background noise Quote by Gary Brecher

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives…

— Claudia Rankine

Being young, working class, and black, everything you do is policed. If someone hits you and you hit back, you are aggressive. If you…

— Daniel Kaluuya

“Violence is about the attacker, not the victim. If you weren’t there, your attacker would have chosen some other victim. You are all real,…

— Kaje Harper

“I still can’t wrap my mind around crossing that line of human behavior – civilized people punching and fighting, making violence their communication of…

— Rachel Thompson

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to,…

— Bubba Smith

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

— Mark Frost

“Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowded room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you are punching someone, or if…

— D.K. Holm

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

— Shannen Doherty

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

— Bell Hooks

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much…

— Bryan Fuller