Causes Quotes - Page 18

• Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.846, Manonmani Publishers

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• One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Links, Infinite, Chains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.73, editionNEXT.com

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• The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Today, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Delusion, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.947, Manonmani Publishers

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• The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  World, Internals, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.12, Advaita Ashrama

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• The law of Karma is the law of causation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Law, Causation

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1312, Manonmani Publishers

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• We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Suffering, Responsible, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.31, editionNEXT.com

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• What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Icons, Target, Manhattan

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• We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Population Problem, Two, Roots

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• Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Taken, Law, People

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• ...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.

  Wayne Dyer

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Teenage, Women, Divorce

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• You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. 'Cause they see change on the street all the time and it's driving them crazy. When you're walking them, he is always looking up at you. "There's a quarter...."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Dog, Crazy

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• I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Mistake, Order

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Family, Daughter, Technology

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• 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

  Merle Haggard

  Marijuana, Easy, Teach

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• Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Marriage, Couple, Unhappy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.32

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• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the pussy can be downtrodden.

  Larry L. King

  Sex, Children, Women

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• Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all

  Muhammad Yunus

  Real, Inability, Income

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• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Real, Views

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.361, Baruch Spinoza

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• 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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• 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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