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Quotes About Cause

He hath considered shortly, in a clause The trespas of hem bothe, and eek the cause, And althogh that his ire hir gilt accused, Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused, As thus: he thoghte wel that every man Wol helpe himself in love if that he kan, And eek delivere himself out of prisoun;
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or catch your carp with subtle argument. All force is twain in one: cause is not cause Unless effect be there; and action's self Must needs contain a passive. So command Exists but with obedience.
~ George Eliot
1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too. 2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or catch your carp with subtle argument. All force is twain in one: cause is not cause Unless effect be there; and action's self Must needs contain a passive. So command Exists but with obedience
~ George Eliot
Semantics matters. Because the word cause is commonly taken to mean direct cause, climate scientists, trying to be precise, have too often shied away from attributing causation of a particular hurricane, drought, or fire to global warming.
~ George Lakoff
Amid the historic struggle to accomplish the cause of the Juche revolution in this long period after its founding, it has developed into a revolutionary party of Juche, into the great party of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and wonderfully performed its role as the organization that guides our people to all victories.
~ Kim Jong-un
According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.
~ Ray Comfort
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.
~ Stacy Schiff
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~ Edward Kennedy
Bullying has always been around and there will always be people who thrive on the hurt they cause to others.
~ Trisha Paytas
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
~ Jean Piaget
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The basis of karma is simple: you are the source of all your baggage.
~ Sadhguru
What is karma? Literally, the word means action.
~ Sadhguru
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
~ Saint Jerome
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Boredom and booze--cause and effect.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
~ Samuel Johnson
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
~ Samuel Richardson
No, I'm saying that you have got to look and think symptom, not disease. If she's a symptom, then ask, where is the disease?
~ Sara Donati
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.
~ Malcolm X
The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
~ Karl Albrecht
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.
~ Samuel Johnson