Cause Quotes - page 4

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. (Mary McCarthy)
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. View quote
Dr. Seuss
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. View quote
Joe Strummer
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want. View quote
Bruce Schneier
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. View quote
Wole Soyinka
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens. View quote
Fannie Lou Hamer
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. View quote
Vera Brittain
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. (William Cullen Bryant)
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. View quote
Paul Dirac
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. View quote
Brennan Manning
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. View quote
Paul Theroux
My pen and paper cause a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. View quote
Eminem
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. View quote
Eric Hoffer
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. (Barbara Tuchman)
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. View quote
Dave Barry
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I? View quote
Leo Tolstoy
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
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