Quotes About Cause

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.

the discovery of the cause of self-deception amounts to the revelation of a sort of unifying theory, an explanation that shows how the apparently disparate collection of symptoms we call 'people problems'—from problems in leadership to problems in motivation and everything in between—are all caused by the same thing.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that "a 'thing' is the sum of its effects.

The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

If you control the cause you own the effect. If you don't, events will unfold like dominoes toppling and you will have no one to blame but yourself.

The leader of a cause is never the cause itself.

If you believe nothing else I tell you, my queen, believe my pain. Consider the cause.

One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts of law, long afterward. The subject therefore may not connect the punishment to his or her previous deeds; animals never do, and people often fail to. If a finger fell off every time someone stole something, or if cars burst into flames when they were parked illegally, I expect stolen property and parking tickets would be nearly nonexistent.

And is this not the very reason for the establishment of the State? If there were cause and reason for confidence among individuals, the State would never have come into existence. The sacred and essential foundation for the State is our mutual and well-founded suspicion of each other. Anyone questioning this foundation throws suspicion upon the State.

There are the choices that we make and the consequences, that's all.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

The materialists, or some of them, would have us believe that the brain produces thoughts as an organ secretes fluids; this is to overlook What constitutes the very essence of thought, namely the materially unexplainable miracle of subjectivity: as if the cause of consciousness - immaterial and non-spatial by definition - could be a material object.

The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one's own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.

It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer.

The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

reasons and two reasons only. One, because

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

In addressing only structure, management had attacked the visible symptoms of poor performance but not the underlying cause—how people made decisions and how they were held accountable.

Confederate soldiers were consistently brave, white Southern women were unquestioningly loyal, and "the cause" was indisputably noble.