Quotes About Cause

We can only guess at the thrill in Douglass's heart, knowing that the cause he had so long pleaded—a sanctioned war to destroy slavery and potentially to reinvent the American republic around the principle of racial equality—might now come to fruition.

I've always wanted to be an advocate.

El secreto de las grandes fortunas sin causa aparente es un crimen olvidado, porque se ha cometido de una manera limpia. –Silencio,

Every cause is painful, and every loss leaves us wondering how we could have acted otherwise to prevent the death. But because different causes of death provoke sufficiently different responses—anger toward suicide victims; blame for homicide, terrorism, and war; helplessness and fear with natural disasters; and hopelessness with terminal disease—the specific way a mother dies or leaves influences how her daughter will respond. Long-term

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

El médico lo examinó con esa atención profesional que está visiblemente buscando la causa del mal, en las enfermedades de los padres. Después

Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.

My organism is a link in the immense chain of cosmic cause and effect, and I can only perceive its real sense by considering it in its real place, in its real connection with all the rest, that is to say by considering it from the point of view of the Universe, in my capacity as universal man and not particular man, in so far as I am similar to all other men and not in so far as I am different.

He maintains that the primary cause of suicide is not individual temperament but forces in the social environment. In other words, suicide is caused primarily by external factors, not internal ones.

It's all because of me isn't it? It's all my fault?

WE COMMIT ALL SORTS OF INJUSTICES AT EVERY STEP WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EVIL INTENTION. EVERY MINUTE WE ARE THE CAUSE OF SOMEONE'S UNHAPPINESS

Il sorriso è la causa, non l'effetto, della felicità

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

The official cause of death was listed as heart failure, aggravated by acute alcoholism.

Whenever you place the cause of one of your actions outside yourself, it's an excuse and not a reason.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

You've got no cause to hurt me, she said. - I know. But I gave my word. - Your word? - Yes. We're at the mercy of the dead here. In this case your husband. - That dont make no sense. - I'm afraid it does

There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death called strangeness, this snapping of all the customary little threads of cause and effect that are our moorings at other times. Slowly they all drew back from me step by step, until I was left there alone, cut off. ("All At Once, No Alice")

A man without a cause from God is often just an angry man who doesn't know where to direct his pent-up energy and aggression. A warrior with a cause from God directs that warlike energy for a cause greater than himself.

because I wanted to

Psychoanalysis is a remedy for the illness of which it is itself the cause'

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.