Culture Quote by Ian MacKaye

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently…

— Paul Bloom

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it…

— Henry Rollins

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

— Rick James

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

— Colman McCarthy

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

— Jane Goldman

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you…

— Chaim Potok

“The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.”

— Steven Pinker

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy…

— Ray Stevenson

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

— Nick Cave

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

— Gloria Steinem

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will…

— Xavier Dolan

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

— Jonathan Sacks