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Quotes About Cause

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
~ Louis Pasteur
Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
~ Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
~ Epictetus
The ultimate way to reduce stress is find the cause and melt it away with love.
~ Debasish Mridha
All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)
~ Reza Assadi
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
~ Hannah Arendt
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
~ Horatio Nelson
You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.
~ Siraj Wahhaj
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
~ Vladimir Lenin
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
~ Larry Niven
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
~ Glenn Reynolds
The cause of the riots were the rioters
~ Dan Quayle
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
~ Johann Lamont
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
~ Philo
At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.
~ William Beckford
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
~ William Cowper
Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"...
~ William Cowper
Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defileThe cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.
~ William Drennan
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
~ William Godwin
El Buda comprendió que nuestro sufrimiento no es un mero producto de la casualidad, sino que tiene una causa, como la tienen todos los fenómenos. La ley de causa y efecto —kamma— es universal y fundamental a la existencia. No hay causas que caigan fuera de nuestro control.
~ William Hart
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
~ William Hazlitt
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
~ William Henry Beveridge