Violent Society Quotes

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.

But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

The inhabitants … are savage and warlike and take such pleasure in war and conflict that one who loses his life in battle is regarded as happy beyond all others. For those who depart from this life by a natural death, they assault with insults, as degenerate and cowardly.

Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.

A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.