Cause Quotes

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.