Quotes About Cause

Hollindrake once wrote to me that the men who fight for a cause, a noble one, have more honor than any mere gentleman. – Felicity Langley (heroine)

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species". (...) We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species." As Walter Alvarez put it to me, "We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species.

capitalism. Almost one hundred years before Karl Marx, Kames and the Scots had discovered the underlying cause of historical change: changes in the "means of production.

All of Aristotle's works point out, however, that the most vital knowledge we have comes a posteriori, meaning "after the fact" or from experience, as we link up a given visible effect to its preceding cause.

Here lay hidden the secret of the sensuous art of literature; it was the secret of suggestion, the art of causing delicious sensation by the use of words.

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality.

False theology makes God's foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God's election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect .

The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.

The nectar of Dharma, the cause of supreme nirvana, is of single taste. Like a stream of rain it falls down and dispels the scorching heat. Depending on the vessel this will turn into different kinds of flavor.

Los tiempos en que conseguías controlarme pertenecen ya al pasado. Ahora que comprendo que eres la causa de todos mis problemas, te eliminaré en cuanto aparezcas.

I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight.

It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

I've had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to 'E.T.' help with an environmental message - I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

It isn't equipment that wins the battles; it is the quality and the determination of the people fighting for a cause in which they believe.