Quotes on Cause

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.

Author: Jack Abbott

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

Author: John Abizaid

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

Author: John Abizaid

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Author: Floyd Abrams

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Author: Scott Adams

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Author: Aesop

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

Author: Yasser Arafat

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Author: Saint Augustine

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

Author: Stephen Baldwin

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

Author: George Banks

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Author: Jacques Barzun

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Author: Gregory Bateson

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Author: Gregory Bateson

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Author: Arnold Bennett

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Author: Jose Bergaman

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Author: Henri Bergson

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

Author: Mary Berry

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Author: Theodore Bikel

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Author: Tony Blair

For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't.

Author: Bradley Blakeman

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

Author: Hans Blix

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Author: Harold Bloom

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.

Author: Robert Brady

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Author: Thomas Browne

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Author: Jean Bruyere

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Author: Jean Bruyere

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Author: William Bryan

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Author: William Bryan

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

Author: William Bryant

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Author: William Bryant

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

Author: Young Buck

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Author: Edmund Burke

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

Author: Jeb Bush

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

Author: Gabriel Byrne

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Author: Lord Byron

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

Author: Jack Cade

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

Author: James Cameron

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Author: Jim Capaldi

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Author: George Carlin

I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

Author: Charisma Carpenter

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Author: Jimmy Carter

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Author: Dick Cavett

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Author: Leslie Charteris

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

Author: Tommy Chong

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

Author: Eric Clapton

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

Author: Adam Clayton

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

Author: John Cleveland

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Author: Edward Coke

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Author: Charles Colton

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Author: Anna Cooper

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Author: Anna Cooper

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Author: Iris DeMent

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Author: Democritus

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

Author: Ani DiFranco

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Author: Jonathan Edwards

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in.

Author: Julius Epstein

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Author: Julius Erving

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

Author: John Flynn

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Author: Samuel Foote

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

Author: Al Franken

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Author: Jim Fraser

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

Author: David Friedman

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

Author: Antoine Fuqua

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Author: Katherine Gerould

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

Author: James Gibson

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

Author: John Glover

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Author: Al Goldstein

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Author: Charles Goodyear

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Author: Al Gore

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

Author: Porter Goss

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Author: Asa Gray

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

Author: Harold Greene

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

Author: John Hall

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Author: Theodor Herzl

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Author: Adolf Hitler

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Author: Ernest Holmes

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Author: Homer

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Author: Richard Hooker

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

Author: Harry Houdini

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

Author: Vernon Howard

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Author: Victor Hugo

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

Author: E. Hunt

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Author: William James

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Author: Angelina Jolie

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

Author: Kim Jung

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Author: Robert Kennedy

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Author: William King

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

Author: Olga Korbut

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

Author: Wayne Kramer

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

Author: Kenneth Lay

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Author: C. Lewis

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Author: Karl Liebknecht

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Author: John Locke

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

Author: Jay London

Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

Author: Kelly Lynch

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

Author: William Lyons

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.

Author: Miriam Makeba

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Author: Peter Marshall

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'

Author: Demetri Martin

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Author: H. Mencken

If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.

Author: Tom Metzger

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Author: Margaret Mitchell

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Author: James Monroe

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Author: Joe Montana

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Author: Sun Moon

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

Author: John Morley

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Author: Bill Moyers

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.

Author: Johannes Muller

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Author: Alfred Musset

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

Author: Alva Myrdal

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Author: Nagarjuna

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Author: Grace Napolitano

To set the cause above renown.

Author: Henry Newbolt

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Let's cause some senators distress.

Author: Peggy Noonan

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Author: Marvin Olasky

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

Author: Alex O'Loughlin

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Author: Austin O'Malley

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Author: Ovid

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

Author: Richard Owen

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Author: Blaise Pascal

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Author: Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Author: Blaise Pascal

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

Author: Chris Patten

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

Author: Matthew Perry

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Author: Phaedrus

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

Author: Wendell Phillips

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Author: Zebulon Pike

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Author: Peace Pilgrim

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Author: Edgar Poe

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Author: Henri Poincare

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Author: Ronald Reagan

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Author: Helen Reddy