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Cause Quotes


"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."


"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."


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


"If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game."


"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."


"I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming."


"A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."


"Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude."


"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give."


"Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly."



"Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession."


"By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?"


"It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes."


"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."


"We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies."


"I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses."


"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."


"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."


"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."


"For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't."


"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."


"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."


"But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis."



"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."


"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."


"There is a cause/effect relationship between your investment in yourself and the future you have."
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