Quotes
Quotes about Cause
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
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.
Men are blind in their own cause.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Weep not that the world changesâdid it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.
Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
