You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
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Related Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's ki... BRUCE WILLIS Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. Americ... SPIKE LEE Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something t... JACKSON KATZ If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of... JAMES NORTON What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - ... MAJORA CARTER I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's t... JANET JACKSON For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not viol... AVI ARAD I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence ... JOHN ABIZAID Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the mos... ARIANA GRANDE I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a par... NIELS ARDEN OPLEV I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way t... ANDY WARHOL What matters is what we do with the life we have. CARRIE RYAN I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling y... SACHIN TENDULKAR City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and y... ALICE COOPER Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. RONALD REAGAN When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the... MAELLE GAVET Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is... LOBSANG TENZIN There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether i... BELL HOOKS When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and exci... ANTOINE FUQUA It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody i... JENNY HOLZER Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforce... MICHAEL MORIARTY My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. SAMANTHA MORTON There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someo... ALICIA KEYS What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and H... EOIN COLFER There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can'... SAM SHEPARD I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in f... MARLO THOMAS The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ... NICK JONAS Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and y... WINONA RYDER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan... ZAKK WYLDE When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People f... BAZ LUHRMANN Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman... VIRGINIA WOOLF With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you... MARGOT KIDDER I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It... GUY RITCHIE Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things... AMY KLOBUCHAR As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to... DYLAN MCDERMOTT To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is... AMY CARLSON Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v... BOB DYLAN The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing som... BEN WHISHAW Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's mos... NAZANIN BONIADI Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that... SYLVIA EARLE There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way ... LIL UZI VERT The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, w... ROB BELL Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful... DAVE MATTHEWS Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. JIM MORRISON The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief... RICHARD DOOLING Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's tha... ADAM MCKAY Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe... HANNAH ARENDT When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching '... GERARD WAY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from vi... DON WINSLOW It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens o... JACK KILBY Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's abou... ROB REINER When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I wan... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television ... VINCE MCMAHON It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of i... CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's ... AFROJACK We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and a... ERIN FOSTER I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. MALCOLM X The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand.... ISHMAEL BEAH I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but tri... DANIEL SILVA Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues... JESSICA VALENTI In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I alm... DAN GILBERT Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen... JAMES BELUSHI You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent i... ERIC SAN When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you... JONAH HILL It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that ever... ADAM RIESS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, ... REBECCA SOLNIT Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of... GEORGES BATAILLE We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ... PATRICIA IRELAND How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w... DENNIS PRAGER One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people... GEOFF MULGAN You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It... ADAM BROWN Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other,... FRANK GEHRY Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,'... NATASHA LEGGERO One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don&... ALANE FERGUSON It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you... ROSAMUND PIKE The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or ... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious pac... JESSE WATTERS With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew... MAIKA MONROE I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence agai... PATRICIA IRELAND Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in pe... BUSTA RHYMES Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it'... CHRIS CORNELL Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing... HEATHER BROOKE When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there&... DON WINSLOW I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music... JENNIFER HUDSON You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow... JAKE OWEN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... BEN SCHNETZER It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet ... IRVIN MAYFIELD 'The Devil in the White City' - the 'White City' was the nickname for the World'... ERIK LARSON For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out ... PATTI SMITH I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not j... DREW GODDARD The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I... OLIVER NORTH
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