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Causes Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our…
- Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a…
- However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a…
- The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should…
- The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
- Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,…
More Causes Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone… — Daisaku Ikeda