Soft Imperative Form

Famous quotes containing the words soft, imperative and/or form:

“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

“To me Americanism means ... an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.”
—Meyer London (1871–1926)

“Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from what he is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)