Causes Quotes · Page 160

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

— Winston Churchill

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which…

— Jack Kerouac

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

— Ray Davies

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not…

— Floyd Abrams

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

— Ellen Goodman

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment…

— James Madison

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains…

— Edward de Bono

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in…

— Samuel Johnson

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our…

— George Henry Lewes

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something…

— Teri Hatcher

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…

— George Ripley

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and…

— Eliphas Levi

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently…

— Georg Simmel

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that…

— Howard Zinn

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal…

— Sophie Kinsella

Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to…

— Carl Sagan

There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising,…

— Rachel Maddow

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause…

— Nat Hentoff

We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him.” – Sundown “Are you out…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and…

— James Rachels

I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so…

— Steven Soderbergh

Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man…

— Charles Lindbergh

There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside…

— Howard Rheingold

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

— Woodrow Wilson

Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.

— Seungri

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

— Ishmael Reed

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat…

— Timothy Noah

I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think people who traditionally ate haggis wouldn't eat the good cuts, 'cause they'd sell the good cuts to make their money,…

— Scott Hutchison

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause…

— Don Marquis

By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

— Sharon Gannon

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.

— Queen Latifah

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

— Dwight Gooden

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

— Lee Child

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

— Charles James Fox

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

— Coolio

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in…

— Jenny McCarthy

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

— Giorgio Baglivi

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

— Josiah Royce