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Quotes About Causes

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.
~ Clint Howard
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing to support their causes.
~ Sucheta Dalal
Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would have to support the causes that were so dear to his heart. Dad strongly supported Huckabee when no one thought that he had any chance to succeed in the presidential race.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.
~ Bobby Sherman
Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
~ Edward Norton
I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.
~ Nell Newman
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
~ Jack L. Chalker
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~ William Gilbert
The profound obligation to convince those with the wherewithal to give more of themselves to institutions and causes larger than themselves falls to you and your professional and lay colleagues. That is not a burden. It is a pleasure. That is not a job. It is a calling.
~ Reynold Levy
The causes of human deficiencies in intelligence—or parenting, or social behavior, or work behavior—lay outside the individual. They were caused by flaws in society.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
In fact, the causes of conflict are usually greed, envy, and ambition, but in an effort to sanitize them, these self-serving emotions have often been cloaked in religious rhetoric.
~ Karen Armstrong
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.
~ James Madison
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
~ Aristotle
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
~ Thomas Hobbes
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
~ Billy Joel
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
~ Chauncey Wright
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
~ Aristotle, Politics
Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
~ Coretta Scott King
I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.
~ Rick Dees
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?
~ Émile Zola, L'Argent
Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.
~ Jochen Zeitz