Quotes on Causes

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Author: George Aiken

In some causes silence is dangerous.

Author: Saint Ambrose

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Author: Aristophanes

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Author: Richard Armour

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Author: Antonin Artaud

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Author: Howard Baker

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Author: Kenneth Baker

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

Author: William Baldwin

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

Author: Dave Barry

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

Author: Michael Behe

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

Author: Tony Blair

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

Author: Pat Boone

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Author: Joseph Butler

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

Author: Jack Chalker

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Author: Claudia Christian

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

Author: Gerald Clarke

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Author: Charles Cooley

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.

Author: Uberto Crescenti

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Author: Clarence Darrow

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

Author: Cameron Diaz

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Author: Frederick Douglass

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

Author: Charles Fillmore

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

Author: E. Forster

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

Author: E. Forster

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Author: Melinda Gates

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Author: Manly Hall

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Author: Raymond Holliwell

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Author: Raymond Hull

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Author: Saint Ignatius

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Author: Gwen John

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.

Author: Leon Jouhaux

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Author: Meir Kahane

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

Author: Ali Khamenei

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

Author: Ayatollah Khamenei

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Author: Fletcher Knebel

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Author: Fletcher Knebel

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Author: Serge Lang

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

Author: Joshua Marshall

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Author: Liza Minnelli

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

Author: Brian Mulroney

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Author: Isaac Newton

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

Author: John Owen

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Author: Daniel Palmer

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Author: Plato

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

Author: Richard Price

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

Author: Karl Rove

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

Author: Paul Ryan

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Author: Georg Simmel

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Author: John Tillotson

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Author: James Tobin

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.

Author: Hideki Tojo

I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.

Author: Jackie Torrence

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Author: Virgil

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Author: Virgil

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.

Author: Morris West

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

Author: Larry Williams

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Author: Shelley Winters

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Author: Shelley Winters

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

Author: Chauncey Wright

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Author: Peter Yarrow