Becoming Quote by Hugh Mackay

Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children…

— Fredric Wertham

“A statement: children who watch violent TV programmes tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence,…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Deborah Prothrow-Stith

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a…

— Robert Winston

The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes…

— Sissela Bok

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds…

— Alva Myrdal

There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did…

— Carl Sagan

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good…

— Spike Lee

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

— Richard King

“Violent atrocities by teenagers against one another have become the stuff of headlines: at Columbine High School in Colorado; in Tabor, Alberta; in Liverpool,…

— Gabor Maté

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

“educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was…

— Po Bronson