The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Impulse Quotes
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.
There is no firm leash holding back sinful impulses… The doctrine of hell is not just some dusty, theological holdover from the unenlightened Middle Ages. It has significant social consequences. Without ultimate justice, people’s sense of moral obligation dissolves; social bonds are broken.
It is hard to fight against impulsive desire: whatever it wants, it will buy at the cost of the soul.
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
They didn’t do great things by deliberate choice but by a sort of impulse. If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old. Our Lord God doesn’t do great things except by violence, as they say.
Obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct… For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self. It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain […]
