Cause Quotes

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. (Simone de Beauvoir)
[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. View quote
Democritus
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. View quote
George Carlin
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I would ... rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than triumph in a cause that I know some day will lose. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. View quote
Matt Groening
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. View quote
William Cobbett
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. (Christopher Marlowe)
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. View quote
Henri Bergson
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Idleness and laziness not only breed ignorance, but they are also the cause of illness. View quote
Avicenna
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it. View quote
Chris Brown
Truth never damages a cause that is just. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
William James
Every cause produces more than one effect. View quote
Herbert Spencer
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? (Xi Jinping)
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. View quote
Cat Stevens
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. View quote
Lily Tomlin