Causes Quotes - Page 18

• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Gratitude, Kings, Ignorance

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• One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sight

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• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.

  Sean Lemass

  Memories, War, Believe

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• England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Country, Thinking, Land

  "Semi-detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations". Book by Martin Ceadel, p. 271, 2000.

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• This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

  David Brooks

  Hate, Scary, Want

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• Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Movement, Illusion

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• No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

  Colin Powell

  War, Hero, Sacrifice

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• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Religious, Lying, Justice

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves, and then sleep in the earth. And when we're there, we'll belong, 'cause the earth don't give a damn if you're lost.

  Radical Face

  Sleep, Cutting, Giving

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• But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Chaos, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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• A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Chance, Determine

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• Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

  Wally Hickel

  Believe, Argument, Above And Beyond

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• Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse.

  Rudolf Bahro

  Spiritual, Animal, Civilization

  Rudolf Bahro (1986). “Building the Green movement”, Library Company of Philadelphia

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• There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Two, Goal

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• Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

  Jon Crosby

  Anger, Simple, Escaping

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• Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Chess, Losing, Defeat

  Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Profound, Facts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Wisdom, Listening, Veils

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• What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hate, Oklahoma City, Blood

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• The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  War, Let It Go, Progress

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Blood, People, World

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel”, p.37, Harper Collins

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