#violent

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#causing #charm #disgust #ear #even

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#alcoholics #country #crime #health #health problem

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. ↗

— Susan Rice

#depicting #evil #mohammed #prophet #responses

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effect #external #external things #fallacy #falseness

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation. ↗

— Bob Saget

#aristocrats #based #comedy #desperation #family

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again. ↗

— Bernhard Goetz

#any #criminal #hesitation #i #shoot

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#remorse #violent

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. ↗

— Henry Home

#deep #formed #impression #make #object

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life. ↗