There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiated ...as to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and sp...iritual impulse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that was ever to happen to me in the future had its germ or impulse in the conditions of my life on Dover Street. My fr...iendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions--these were the materials out of which I built my after life, in the open workshop of America. My days in the slums were pregnant with possibilities; it only needed the ripeness of events to make them fruit forth in realities. Steadily as I worked to win America, America advanced to lie at my feet. I was an heir, on Dover Street, awaiting maturity. I was a princess waiting to be led to the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the pun...ishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 kee...p on looking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.... Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We walk along the cliff, and I feel a sudden impulse to push you over, which I promptly do: I acted on impulse, yet I certainly in...tended to push you over, and may even have devised a little ruse to achieve it; yet even then I did not act deliberately, for I did not (stop to) ask myself whether to do it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nev...ertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.... Instead of b...eing a sudden impulse full of ardour and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on ...to the sidewalk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »