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Cause Quotes


"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."


"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."



"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."



"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."



"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."


"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."


"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns."


"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."


"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."


"As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid."


"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level."



"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."



"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."


"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."


"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."


"The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary."


"Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity."


"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."


"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"


"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."



"By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."



"Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma."



"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."


"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."


"I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain."


"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does."
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