Alexander Walker Quotes

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Alexander Walker

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• May
• Violence
• Sex

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  Alexander Walker
  • World
  • May
  • Violence