Good Causes Quotes - Page 4

• Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

  Mark Skousen

  Giving, Promise, Bills

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• If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

  Eddie Vedder

  Play, Causes, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Causes

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.17, Villard

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• That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

  Andy Kaufman

  Fun, Thinking, Events

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• I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Feelings, Succeed, Causes

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• There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

  Vaclav Havel

  Might, Causes, Strive

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• By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Men, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.172, Race Point Publishing

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• You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Eagle Strike”, p.174, Penguin

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• I tell ya, my wife, we get along good cause we have our own arrangement. I mean, one night a week I go out with the boys and one night a week, she goes out with the boys.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mean, Boys, Night

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• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  Ellen Lupton

  Art, Interesting Situations, Design

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

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• Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Humor, America

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.11, Taylor Trade Publications

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• All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

  Edward Abbey

  Self, Political, Revolution

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• I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

  Medgar Evers

  Fighting, America, Car

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• Jimmy Carr is a very nice man who works incredibly hard and has donated loads of money to good causes. He's done absolutely nothing illegal.

  Rufus Hound

  Nice, Men, Done

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• War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.235, Haymarket Books

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• While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Moving, Blessing, Waiting

  Eleanor Knowles, Howard W. Hunter (1994). “Howard W. Hunter”, Deseret Book Co

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• A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Effort, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.311, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Light

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• It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

  Guy Lafleur

  Thank You, Nice, Careers

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• Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Truth, Worry, Earth

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws - poorly understood and applied - are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Distance, Responsibility, Passion

  "The Regiment of the Senses". Poem by Constantine P. Cavafy, transl. by Manuel Savidis, www.cavafy.com.

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• If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

  Joseph McCabe

  Men, Causes, Reason

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• I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

  Charles Bukowski

  Evil, Giving, Feel Good

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I've been around for almost 10 years in the game but somehow I still look like I'm like on my second or third album or something. So it's good cause it doesn't blow up my age.

  Fabolous

  Blow, Games, Years

  Source: www.complex.com

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Causes, Justify

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