Violence Acceptance Quotes

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

What is harm for some women isn’t harm for another. Some women accept beatings and insults as a joke, while others do not.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.

Americans are fine with the use of force as long as nobody gets hurt.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

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