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Quotes About Cause

Every war decision must be forced to a clear-cut issue, and no thought of personal friendship or political unity can find any place in such a process. The soldiers who are ordered to their deaths have a right to a plan, as well as a cause.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The cause of quarrel had disappeared on paper at the same time as the fighting all over Europe began.
~ Winston S. Churchill
if I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame. But
~ Xenophon
No one ever hates without a cause....
~ Christopher Isherwood
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.
~ Christopher McDougall
Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.
~ Claire Weekes
The first great cause of crime is poverty, and we will never cure crime until we get rid of poverty.
~ Clarence Darrow
Tienes la costumbre de querer saber por qué -el por qué no me interesa, la causa es la materia del pasado.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tens o hábito de querer saber por quê - e porque não me interessa, a causa é matéria de passado.
~ Clarice Lispector
Para combatir con mayor eficacia el desasosiego que es tan perjudicial, San Francisco de Sales procura descubrir cuál es la causa ordinaria, por no decir única, de esta falta de paz. Es el amor propio, el buscarse a sí mismo.
~ Unknown
Obstinacy is dangerous and destructive when human actions are derailed for good cause.
~ Unknown
The cost of survival is dependent on the cause of living.
~ Unknown
post hoc, propter hoc
~ Colin Dexter
Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
Every cause produces more than one effect.
~ Herbert Spencer
So old and persistent did Mother's unhappiness seem that I had never stopped to ask its true cause. Nothing is more acceptable than that which we are born into.
~ Hisham Matar
Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?
~ Holly Black
I was meant for the purpose of betraying the High Court. Never to survive past that. If I am the cause of Lady Nore's fall, it will give me all the more pleasure for her never having anticipated it.
~ Holly Black
I am trembling. I bite the inside of my cheek to ground myself in pain that I cause. This feels entirely too familiar, to wait for punishment from a capricious ruler.
~ Holly Black
Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?
~ Holly Black
Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems.
~ Homer Simpson
To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.
~ Homer Simpson
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
~ Unknown
Every man secretly wishes to die in battle, he just needs a cause to fight for.
~ Unknown