Cause Quotes

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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development… — George S. Patton
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. — Isaac Newton
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it — Colin Powell
There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me. — Chris Brown
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the… — William Cowper
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these… — Hippocrates
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right… — Cesar Chavez
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means. — Cesar Chavez
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. — Cesar Chavez
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor.… — Cesar Chavez
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and… — Henry David Thoreau
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. — William Shakespeare
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them… — William Hazlitt
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard

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