C. Everett Koop Quotes

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.

Violent content on television is more dangerous to children than indecency.

Adults should be intelligent enough to know what they want - if you don't like it, then don't consume it. A rating system for kids and teens is more important. Especially for violent shows.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

I don't watch the media that much.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.