Quotes About Cause

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I'd rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

To let an impulse become a compulsion, especially if he thought he was contributing to a cause greater than himself

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

The most fundamental principle of learning theory is that behavior is a function of its consequences. When

To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it— Block it up With Other—and 'twill yawn the more— You cannot solder an Abyss With Air.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. [...] The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

It is perhaps true that the criminal who embraces a holy cause is more ready to risk his life and go to extremes in its defense than people who are awed by the sanctity of life and property.

The spokesmen of democracy offer no holy cause to cling to and no corporate whole to lose oneself in.

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La individualidad es motivada y perpetuada por el deseo, y la causa de todo deseo es la ignorancia (avidy?).

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.

As actors, we do have certain powers. I want to use them for the right cause.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

I think occasionally it's the presence - or increased presence - of federal law enforcement that can cause that fear.

Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.

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