Causes Quotes - Page 23

• The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight...
  Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!

  Ludacris

  Rap, Fighting, Sweat

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• The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Slavery, Compromise

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Taken, Humor

  "Mitch All Together". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, 2003.

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• I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Feel Better, Blessing, Careers

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

  Charles Lyell

  Change, Science, Curiosity

  Sir Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation”, p.305

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• Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

  Ani DiFranco

  Smile, Eye, Thinking

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• You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Air, Feet

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• The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suffering, Use

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• Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Thinking, Belief

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• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, Mistake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Dark, Past

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• A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

  Tommy Cooper

  Men, Iron, Bars

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Fighting, Government

  "Lupe Fiasco calls President Obama 'Biggest Terrorist'" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products.

  Robert Rubin

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• I AM (your true self) is not interested in man’s opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say, “I AM Christ”? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real.

  Neville Goddard

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

  Simon Brett

  Real, Energy, May

  Simon Brett (2011). “Mrs. Pargeter's Package”, p.136, Severn House Publishers Ltd

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• Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Sky, Punishment

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.149, Macmillan

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• What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil.

  Boyd Rice

  Agreement, Civilization, Facts

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• If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

  David O. Selznick

  Trouble, Accurate, Ifs

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Home, College, Class

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• A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Loss, Groups

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• Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.

  Nigel Worthington

  Different, Loyal

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• The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

  Chauncey Wright

  Science, Men, Accidents

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.141, A&C Black

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• By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

  Chauncey Wright

  Mean, May, Criteria

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.36, A&C Black

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