Quotes About Cause

Now this peasant came petition him an eighth time; he said: "0 high steward, my lord! Men fall low through greed. The rapacious man lacks success ; his success is loss. Though you are greedy it does nothing for you. Though you steal you do not profit. Let a man defend his rightful cause!

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause? Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Beauty acts as a cause to produce love, because the being, the attributes and the works of God possess beauty, and every one loves that which is beautiful.

If man acquires rights over things, it is because he is at once active, intelligent and free; by his activity he spreads over external nature; by his intelligence he governs it, and bends it to his use; by his liberty, he establishes between himself and it the relation of cause and effect and makes it his own. ...

Some people claim that expectation is the source of all misery, while others claim that attachment is the root cause.

The wise man always put more energy in his cause than the expected outcomes and I hope that, you will follow the same path advised by our ancestors.

There are so many who rebel from righteousness for the sake of rebelling. They have an empty cause.

You can easily remember the effect but forget the main cause behind it.

My proposal, then, as the way of making sense of all the data before me, is that Jesus believed it was his god-given vocation to identify with the rebel cause, the kingdom-cause, when at last that identification could not be misunderstood as endorsement.

if wanderers were not themselves the cause, then like the scent and color of the lotus in the sky, there would be no perception of the universe.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

the whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. from factors which are empty, empty factors originate. those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. there is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed. see the real correctly, for he who sees the real correctly is released

Because humans are capable of knowing, the first cause that produced them must have a mind. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause must have a will. And so on. Philosopher Étienne Gilson captures the argument neatly: because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must be also a Someone.

The existence of personal beings constitutes evidence that they were created by a personal God, not by any non-personal cause.

why should we acquiesce in letting philosophical naturalists prescribe the definition of science itself? The only reason for restricting science to methodological naturalism is if we assume from the outset that philosophical naturalism is true—that nature is a closed system of cause and effect. But if it is not true, then restricting science to naturalistic theories is not a good strategy for getting at the truth.47

With the distanced drumbeat of the Revolution, the chink of coins suddenly became more important than commitment to the cause.

A similar phenomenon developed with acid rain in the 1990s, as the media attended to the idea that its cause was still not established—more than a decade after that was no longer true—or the claim that it would cost more to fix than it was worth, which was unsupported by evidence.

Scientists had been saying for a long time that human activity was a likely cause of warming. They were now saying that it was demonstrated.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.