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Quotes About Causes

While police intervention can importantly separate violent adults from their victims or each other after violence has begun, this job of "stopping violence" has shifted from stopping the causes of violence to reacting punitively to the expressions of those unaddressed causes.
~ Sarah Schulman
Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.
~ Devra Davis
The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
~ William Shakespeare
In 1828 Professor Bianchi demonstrated how the fearful reappearance of the plague at Modena was caused by excavations in ground where, THREE HUNDRED YEARS PREVIOUSLY, the victims of the pestilence had been buried. Mr. Cooper, in explaining the causes of some epidemics, remarks that the opening of the plague burial-grounds at Eyam resulted in an immediate outbreak of disease.'—NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, NO. 3, VOL. 135.
~ Mark Twain
We are in the midst of dangers so great and increasing, we are the guardians of causes so precious to the world, that we must, as the Bible says, "Lay aside every impediment" and prepare ourselves night and day to be worthy of the Faith that is in us.
~ Martin Gilbert
We have, it seems, shut the poor out of our minds and driven them from the mainstream of our society. We have allowed the poor to become invisible, and we have become angry when they make their presence felt. But just as nonviolence has exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, we must now find ways to expose and heal the sickness of poverty—not just its symptoms, but its basic causes.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature is unfathomable because we seek after causes and consequences in a realm where this form is not to be found. We try to reach the inner being of nature, which looks out at us from every phenomenon, under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason - whereas this is merely the form under which our intellect comprehends appearance, i.e. the surface of things, while we want to employ it beyond the bounds of appearance; for within these bounds it is serviceable and sufficient.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
~ Ayn Rand
Emptiness indicates how everything that comes about does so through an unrepeatable matrix of contingencies, conditions, and causes as well as through conceptual, linguistic, and cultural frameworks.
~ Stephen Batchelor
All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.
~ Stephen Colbert
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau
~ Stephen Covey
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.
~ Jonathan Glover
The two biggest causes of evil are two that we think are good, and that we try to encourage in our children: high self-esteem and moral idealism. Having high self-esteem doesn't directly cause violence, but when someone's high esteem is unrealistic or narcissistic, it is easily threatened by reality; in reaction to those threats, people—particularly young men—often lash out violently.
~ Jonathan Haidt
A survey21 of beliefs about the causes of illness across cultures shows that the three most common explanations are biomedical (referring to physical causes of disease), interpersonal (illness is caused by witchcraft, related to envy and conflict), and moral (illness is caused by one's own past actions, particularly violations of food and sexual taboos).
~ Jonathan Haidt
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.
~ Ben Okri
Recessions can be triggered by many causes, or combinations of causes.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Maxima bella ex levissimis causis:
~ Benjamin Franklin
I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.
~ Valerie Harper
Given that trade benefited the Asian economies on the way up, it seems natural that the slowdown in global trade, whatever its causes, could lead to some loss of dynamism and growth in the region.
~ Jerome Powell
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
~ Charles A. Beard
There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.
~ Marco Rubio