Causes Quote by Alexander Pope

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

“The train swung around the curve, the engine puffing with short, heavy blasts, and they passed smoothly from sight that way, with that quality…

— William Faulkner

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for…

— Glen Cook

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.

— William Shakespeare

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

— Walter Scott

“Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out Neither side is glorious On either…

— Peter Weiss

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead…

— George Orwell

“Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each other. In…

— Mladen Đorđević

“What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me today? What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long…

— J.R.R. Tolkien