Quotes About Cause

Avrus ipse miseriae causa est suae. (Publilius Sent.:

Her ÅŸeyin bir sebebi vard?r. Masan?z?n üzerindeki k?r?nt? kahvalt?da yediÄŸiniz ekmeÄŸi hat?rlatan gizemli bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir, sadece siz onu oradan kald?rmamay? seçtiÄŸiniz için oradad?r. Bunun istisnas? yoktur.

It's easy to blame, easy to want revenge. But when you look at things closely, you start to see that every event is locked onto every other event; that sometimes things happen just because they happen. None of us like to think that's so, because then we can never strike out at someone to ease the pain; we have to find another way, and none of the other ways are so simple, or so satisfying.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Bad things happen because things happen.

To suggest that the first cause, the great unknown which is responsible for something existing rather than nothing, is a being capable of designing the universe and of talking to a million people simultaneously, is a total abdication of the responsibility to find an explanation. It is a dreadful exhibition of self-indulgent, thought denying skyhookery.

The universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. Bad things happen because things happen.

I had dreamt up a cause for my jealousy by myself and I was jealous because of myself.

By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...