Quotes About Causes

It made me wonder how many important causes were crushed not by opposition, but by lukewarm support.

Multiple causes for this turnaround have been suggested. But Goldstein, a leading scholar in this field, argues that the most important is the emergence of multinational institutions like the United Nations, which owe their origins to peace activists from the last century.

I saw how much money people spent in the fashion industry, and I was like, 'Oh, man, if someone can spend this much on clothes, they certainly can spend five dollars a month on causes.'

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

In the field, though, the causes were immediate. A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity carried consequences that lasted forever.

And the thing is, that's all fantastic. I'm glad they work at the soup kitchen and care about their causes. It's the self-congratulatory sense they have, so gravely discussing their commitment and level of knowledge.

In constructing a theory which derives the neurosis from causes in the distant past, we are first and foremost following the tendency of our patient to lure us as far away as possible from the critical present…It is mainly in the present that the affective causes lie, and here alone are the possibilities of removing them.

La scienza della realtà e della necessità, delle cause e delli effetti, dell'ingegni di puntamento, di percussione e di prótasi, quella sola può leggere dal suo quaderno che in sul capo all'Autore cadrà il pomo dall'albero, piantato nel prato, e disgregatasi invece dalle torri erme dell'alpe cadrà la pietra, cercando il profondo; che il giusto colpo springherà tremendo sopra al bersaglio; e che l'erba, che sarà cresciuta, la mangerà il cavallo, che campato sarà.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

In searching for the causes of war, don't overlook boredom.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.

I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my mother is the president, and she was an African politics professor for almost 50 years, so I think people know that I align myself with people who know what they're talking about.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

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.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.