Impulse Quotes

We - you and I, and our government - must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

The average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility.

All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.