Causes Quotes

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

Polygamy causes a lot of strife

Ezekiel says this, though, he's - God said to the prophet, he said I'm going to cause you to sit where they've sat.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. 'Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family.

Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.