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Cause Quotes
"The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights."
173
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
165
"Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me."
127
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
125
"My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it."
124
"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."
123
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
119
"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."
112
"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
72
"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause."
62
"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
48
"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists."
46
"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
45
"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary."
44
"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."
44
"I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back."
44
"Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."
44
"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."
44
"The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience."
43
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
42
"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."
42
"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
42
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
42
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
42
"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."
41
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon."
41
"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
41
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