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Quotes About Cause

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause.
~ Laura Bush
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
~ Samuel Richardson
The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
~ Mark Foley
I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
~ Matthew Gray Gubler
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and everything else that puts both average and above-average citizens in the limelight, pessimists are sideliners in both history and the media. Without belief in gods or ghosts, unmotivated by a comprehensive delusion, they could never plant a bomb, plan a revolution, or shed blood for a cause.
~ Thomas Ligotti
A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.
~ Thomas Paine
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
~ Thomas Paine
The same self-reinforcing tendency that perpetuates an attitude can also magnify attitude changes--particularly in the negative direction. A single bad experience can frighten you so that you get a negative feeling each time you encounter anything related to the cause of the bad experience.
~ THOMAS R. BLAKESLEE
También en este caso, es una estupidez enfadarse con el síntoma y, absurdo, tratar de suprimirlo impidiendo su manifestación. Lo que debemos eliminar no es el síntoma, sino la causa. Por consiguiente, si queremos descubrir qué es lo que nos señala el síntoma, tenemos que apartar la mirada de él y buscar más allá.
~ Thorwald Dethlefsen
the passage of this book to those ready for the instruction will attract the attention of such as are prepared to receive the Teaching. And, likewise, when the pupil is ready to receive the truth, then will this little book come to him, or her. Such is The Law. The Hermetic Principle of Cause and Effect, in its aspect of The Law of Attraction, will bring lips and ear together —pupil and book in company.
~ Three Initiates
Toda causa tiene su efecto; todo efecto tiene su causa; todo sucede de acuerdo con la ley; azar no es sino un nombre para una ley no reconocida; hay muchos planos de causación, pero nada escapa a la ley. El Kybalión.
~ Three Initiates
Everything happens according to Law; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.
~ Three Initiates
What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
~ Cindy Sheehan
Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
~ Thomas Browne
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
~ George Weah
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
~ Norton Juster
Lo ves? Eso es lo que hacen los historiadores, hacen juegos con la causa y el efecto, cuando el asunto es que hay períodos en los que el mundo cambia, y la voz precisa en el lugar preciso puede mover al mundo
~ Orson Scott Card
It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.
~ Orson Scott Card