Causes Quotes - Page 28

• In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

  Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  George Washington

  Men, Evil, Brave

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.436

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture, materially depend, in his judgment, the individual and aggregate prosperity of the citizens of the United States; their relief from the embarrassments they now experience; their character as a people; the cause of good government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Character, Light

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.4

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Believe, Justice, Compromise

  9 Copy quote

• Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

  Natalie Portman

  Pain, Different, Three

  "Natalie Portman: 'Eating For Me Is How You Proclaim Your Beliefs'". www.ecorazzi.com. May 05, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cause I'm a redneck woman.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Redneck

  Song: Red Neck Woman

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

  Gabrielle Union

  School, Teeth, Crowds

  10 Copy quote

• I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

  Chris Hughes

  Meaningful, Moving, Skills

  4 Copy quote

• The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

  Porter Goss

  Iraq, Conflict, Extremist

  "CNN Live at Daybreak", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

  Frank Knight

  War, Conflict, Economic

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.297, University of Chicago Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Movie, Heartbroken, Pain

  7 Copy quote

• If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Character, Mean, Science

  7 Copy quote

• It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Noble, Vietnam War

  6 Copy quote

• After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Temptation, Needs

  10 Copy quote

• In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Gold, Credit, Crunch

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Inspirational, Lonely, Imagination

  Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.115, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.

  Eric Liu

  Love, Country, Children

  17 Copy quote

• Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

  Nicki Minaj

  Boston, Auctions, Clubs

  4 Copy quote

• Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her

  Nicki Minaj

  Dope, Boys, Materialistic

  10 Copy quote

• Now everybody let me hear you say 'Ray Ray Ray'. Now spend all your money cause they pay pay pay.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Rays, Pay

  Song: Starships, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Rubber Bands, Pops

  15 Copy quote

• Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Flip, Nasty

  4 Copy quote

• & if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Fake, Ifs

  6 Copy quote

• But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Pain, Complaining

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Autism

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source