Quotes About Causes

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

Commitment to great causes makes great men.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

Speaker says psychology has commandeered everything hard and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Underneath the shifting sands of the struggle between two little Greek states [Thucydides] had caught sight of a universal truth. Throughout his book, through the endless petty engagements on sea and land which he relates with such scrupulous care, he is pointing out what war is, why it comes to pass, what it does, and, unless men learn better ways, must continue to do. His History of the Peloponnesian War is really a treatise on war, its causes and its effects.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.