Quotes About Cause

It was never that difficult to see that religion was a cause of hatred and conflict, and that its maintenance depended upon ignorance and superstition

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.

No one ever hates without a cause...." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause, Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.

A general who wages war for a republic whose cause is not just would make devils of soldiers, and turn honor to evil.

The problem for us was to move forward to a decisive victory, or our cause was lost.

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

I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation and prayer; but I would like to see truthful history written. Such history will do full credit to the courage, endurance and soldierly ability of the American citizen, no matter what section of the country he hailed from, or in what ranks he fought. The justice of the cause which in the end prevailed, will, I doubt not, come

there will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

you have to consult the works of Lenin, who told his disciples that everything was right that furthered the cause of the proletarian revolution, and that Communists must be prepared to lie and cheat for the cause.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause.

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

Without ever having met the Dharma, the Buddha's legacy to the world, and without having developed a good heart, everything we do can only be the cause of the lower realms. Our education is solely for this purpose. We go to kindergarten, primary school, high school and then college and university just to create the causes of the lower realms. I don't think I have ever put it this way before.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

Where isn't really the problem. The where isn't to blame for the what.

The Party is a wonderful, marvelous invention, and it has taught us wonderful, marvelous things—chiefly, that we can cause more trouble with less effort by filing complaints than by breaking teacups.