Quotes About Cause

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

mentor as anything but an honor. A way to serve the Capitol and perhaps gain a little glory. But she had a point. If the cause wasn't honorable, how could it be an honor to participate in it? He felt confused, then manipulated, then undefended. As if he were more a tribute than a mentor.

Si la causa no era honorable, ¿cómo podía ser un honor participar en ella?

How my rescue was arranged from the beginning? And finally, how our mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, betrayed us both for a cause he pretended to have no interest in?

If the cause wasn't honorable, how could it be an honor to participate in it?

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