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Alva Myrdal

"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."

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"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."

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A.E. Samaan

"I still ask myself why did you watched the film Paranormal Activity the all parts or the film "The VIsit" 2015. Both were home made and not big deal even stupid, you even watch football + you play one game over and over and over, you play stupid games + you watch stupid stuff and after all you still ask yourself why you are stupid. The answer is somewhere here, search it!"

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A.E. Samaan

"The agenda of the Media is not to inform you, they don't care about you, they are trying to show you the truth. There are some intelligent Christians but they can't find them and put on the air ...for instance me."

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A.E. Samaan

"Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead."

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A.E. Samaan

"The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'."

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A.E. Samaan

"Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life."

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A.E. Samaan

"The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story."

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A.E. Samaan

"TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged."

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A.E. Samaan

"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."

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A.E. Samaan

"The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking."

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A.E. Samaan

"Social media was designed to SHARE what you're doing and who you are, not BE what you're doing and be who you are."

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"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced."
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"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."
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"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
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"War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy."
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"My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics."
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"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them."
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"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
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"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
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"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."
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