Cause Quotes

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Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we… — Michel de Montaigne
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne
We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy… — Eric Hoffer
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new… — Eric Hoffer
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… — Charles Lamb
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief… — Cynthia Ozick
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into… — Aristotle
Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real? — George Carlin
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… — William Hazlitt
But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. — Edmund Spenser
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to… — Muriel Spark
I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing. — Juliana Hatfield
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence. — Juliana Hatfield
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. — William Beveridge
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky

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