Quotes About Cause

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Not being able to find a cause is profoundly distressing; it creates anxiety because it implies a loss of control. The desire to find a cause is driven by fear.

Asking what is the cause, is just as bizarre as asking what is the cause of not having an accident. Accidents have their basis in the real complexity of the system, not their apparent simplicity.

What is the cause of the accident? This question is just as bizarre as asking what the cause is of not having an accident.

Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.

The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

For in the country, farm or town, you always know. No one's just there. There's always a source, a why and wherefore.

Central to the stories in which people featured, was the bond of love with the concomitants: duty, obedience, responsibility, honor, and orderliness; always orderliness. Like the seasons of the year, life was depicted full of cause and effect, predictability and order; connectedness and oneness.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

To set the cause above renown,To love the game beyond the prize,To honor, while you strike him down,The foe that comes with fearless eyes;To count the life of battle goodAnd dear the land that gave you birth,And dearer yet the brotherhoodThat binds the brave of all the earth.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.