It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product. Votes: 1
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 thing for young kids. Votes: 1
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. Votes: 1
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. Votes: 1
Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away. Votes: 1
Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down. Votes: 1
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. Votes: 1
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. Votes: 1
One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books. Votes: 1
Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. Votes: 1
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence. Votes: 1
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. Votes: 1
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. Votes: 1
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. Votes: 0
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. Votes: 0
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Votes: 10 Isaac Asimov
Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud. Votes: 6 Lana Del Rey