"When we speak about a culture of violence in the American society, we're not just talking about the mass killers. We're also talking about that we, as a society, and many of us as individuals accept violence as part of life because we have become numb to it, being so exposed to it in various forms of media."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Jim Steyer

#Culture Quotes #Violence Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.”
“I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.”
“When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.”
“I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.”
“What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.”

Source : Bob Garfield (2009). “The Chaos Scenario”
“everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.”

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