Causes Quotes

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

Psychiatry causes so much death

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.