Quotes About Causes

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,               atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,               atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari. (on Lucretius)

it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

More love lacks causes, more its effects fill them. (Et plus l'amour manque de causes, Plus ses effets les remplissent)

We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a man-made problem can be solved by men and women.

Another thing that cigarette smoking causes is statistics.

Folks who only battle the symptoms of stress are losing the battle because the symptoms are sure to return if the causes aren't dealt with.

If stress were only caused by external events or other people, everyone, without exception, would respond in the same way to the same kind of external provocations.

He felt so tired and angry. Maybe his anger was mostly caused by his exhaustion and lack of hope. And don't forget the fear, he told himself. Fear that the good causes never win—that they can only hold up evil for a while.

La raza y la esclavitud de nuestras necesidades cotidianas son las misteriosas causas maestras que gobiernan nuestro destino.

The use of a variety of tools does not mean sacrificing depth of analysis; the point is only not to be simplistic but rather to insist on getting at the deepest causes of the situation, for this is what it means to be truly radical.

poverty is a complex human condition, and its causes must also be complex. The use of a variety of tools does not mean sacrificing depth of analysis; the point is only not to be simplistic but rather to insist on getting at the deepest causes of the situation, for this is what it means to be truly radical.

against Romans based upon conclusions about its causes, course, and outcome. The story of the Temple's destruction is often seen as the paradigmatic, if not unprecedented, warning or lesson for Jews and others. Sin will be punished; great sin will be greatly punished.61

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

People commit to causes, not to plans.

Beard's view, slavery and emancipation were almost incidental to the real causes and consequences of the war. The sectional conflict arose from the contending economic interests of plantation agriculture and industrializing capitalism.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

Celebrities like to pay lip service to causes but rarely do so by putting their lives in peril. And even more rarely do they do so in the name of the United States of America, not on their own behalf.

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

Let stars choose what causes they want to endorse without making it an issue of loyalty to the state or country.