Cause Quotes
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“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Crome Yellow
― Crome Yellow
“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
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“All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.”
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“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”
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“This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.”
― Kushiel's Dart
― Kushiel's Dart
“Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.”
― The Thousand Orcs
― The Thousand Orcs
“Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?
Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences.
Receiving misfortune does not necessarily indicate that one has committed evil. But it is a sufficient indicator of something else.
And that something else can be anything, as long as it is a logical consequence of what has come before.
Consider: if you fall into a well, you are not a bad person who deserves to suffer—you are merely someone who took a wrong step. Or someone who had one drink too many. Or got a head rush due to poor circulation. Or forgot to wear your glasses. Or—
The reasons are plentiful, and all plausible. But the chain of cause and effect goes way, way back into the deepest hoariest recesses of your personal past.
So never rule out retribution. But never expect it.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences.
Receiving misfortune does not necessarily indicate that one has committed evil. But it is a sufficient indicator of something else.
And that something else can be anything, as long as it is a logical consequence of what has come before.
Consider: if you fall into a well, you are not a bad person who deserves to suffer—you are merely someone who took a wrong step. Or someone who had one drink too many. Or got a head rush due to poor circulation. Or forgot to wear your glasses. Or—
The reasons are plentiful, and all plausible. But the chain of cause and effect goes way, way back into the deepest hoariest recesses of your personal past.
So never rule out retribution. But never expect it.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.”
― Emily Climbs
― Emily Climbs
“By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, but not desirable. Have you really lived at all if you have not lived with passion? Without it would a masterpiece be possible? I don’t think so. With purpose, cause and passion, there is no way the end you envision will not become the reality you live.”
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“I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.”
― The Essential Plotinus
― The Essential Plotinus
“...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.”
― Principles of Philosophy
― Principles of Philosophy
“With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is to concentrate on cause and prevent the misery.”
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“Eighty years of peace create a certain way of thinking.”
“Yes, Father. And those who don’t break it may very soon find it listed as their cause of death.”
― Defiant
“Yes, Father. And those who don’t break it may very soon find it listed as their cause of death.”
― Defiant
“There are those dubious causes that destroy our lives by whispering in our ears the mesmerizing lie that the cause is handing us the privilege of sacrifice, when in fact it is executing an act of murder.”
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“Historic Lahaina town stood for hundreds of years without issue and was destroyed by a huge fire in August 2023. What changed to cause the massive destruction?”
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“God!... Once the lying spirit of a cause
With maddening words dethrones the mind of men,
They're past the reach of prayer. The eternal laws
Hate them. Their eyes will not come clean again,
But doom and strong delusion drive them then,
Without ruth, without rest... the iron laughter
Of the immortal mouths goes hooting after.”
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With maddening words dethrones the mind of men,
They're past the reach of prayer. The eternal laws
Hate them. Their eyes will not come clean again,
But doom and strong delusion drive them then,
Without ruth, without rest... the iron laughter
Of the immortal mouths goes hooting after.”
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“The Dark Cloud
Is the extreme caution that women must have in order to survive
Is the unfair treatment that the disadvantaged have and how they’re punished so they don’t thrive
Is the deep depression you feel when you see refugees in pain
Is the worthy cause that didn’t get enough attention because some people are vain”
― The Dark Cloud
Is the extreme caution that women must have in order to survive
Is the unfair treatment that the disadvantaged have and how they’re punished so they don’t thrive
Is the deep depression you feel when you see refugees in pain
Is the worthy cause that didn’t get enough attention because some people are vain”
― The Dark Cloud
“Rumblings of thunder warn us lightning may occur. Crashing thunder tells us lightning has occurred.”
― Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
― Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
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