To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.