Quotes About Cause

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The Americans have retained these three distinguishing characteristics of the judicial power; an American judge can only pronounce a decision when litigation has arisen, he is only conversant with special cases, and he cannot act until the cause has been duly brought before the court.

The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is: The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.

It's figuring out the why of things; the final factor that makes a person act can be so damn elusive, but you can always find some motivation, if you look hard enough. The wrong word said at the wrong time, a gun in the wrong hand, the wrong woman who kisses you just right. Money, love, or fury - those are the causes for most everything.

I would only understand her grief when my child caused me my own.

What is addiction really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. The drug business would not nourish if there were not so many people who, in refusing to acknowledge their wounds, are in a permanent state of self-betrayal. Thus, people work to get rid of symptoms instead of searching out the cause.

It is for this reason that

It is the best of times because we have entered a period, if we can bring ourselves to pay attention, of great clarity as to cause and effect.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

I don't trust a man who drinks,' he growled, not bothered about dressing it up. 'A man takes to drinking, then he gets weak, then his mind goes.' Cosca sadly shook his head. 'You have it back to front. A man's mind goes, then he gets weak, then he takes to drink. The bottle is the symptom, not the cause.

And he wasn't without sympathy for their cause, up to a point. Freedom and justice and so on, who doesn't like that stuff, in principle?

the more you believe in the cause, the better the effect.

Outlaws like to sleep in. I've been FBI for eight years, and I've never once had cause to shoot anyone before eleven in the morning. Not as long as I get my coffee anyway.

Compreensivelmente, talvez, os fumegantes estavam sempre à beira da histeria. Mas havia uma questão do tipo ovo ou galinha nesse fato: será que eles entravam em pânico porque seus corpos não paravam de soltar fumaça, ou será que soltavam fumaça porque suas mentes estavam em constante estado de pânico?

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

The very moment that any form becomes a necessity in our experience, we are placing our dependence, our happiness, and our joy in that, instead of in the Infinite Invisible which is the cause of the form, and we are idolaters. We

If the cause is big enough, people will justify dishonour.

It was the Cause. In the face of a Great Cause, the individual was always the first to suffer. The Great Cause consumed individuals as a Southern Plains tornado consumed trees. It did not matter that the Cause was in the name of humanity itself—any such mass ideology, even that conducted in the name of individual rights and freedoms, would sacrifice anyone and anything to further its own grand purpose.

Hay que cuidarse de confundir causa y efecto, pero en especial de hacer depender el barómetro de los acontecimientos atmosféricos, pero a la causa a la que debemos estar especialmente atentos es a los correlatos, a las relaciones que surgen como resultados de actividades que tienen efectos colaterales y conjuntos.

The symptoms are a messenger of a deeper problem. Let's get to the deeper problem.

Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.

If we can figure out at the age of five which kids are going to be addicts and which ones aren't, that tells us something fundamental about drug addiction. "Their relative maladjustment," the study found, "precedes the initiation of drug use." Indeed, "Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.