Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
Mitch Hedberg

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Michael Jackson

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.
Thomas Paine

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
Ernest Holmes

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
Jerry Garcia

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Rush Limbaugh

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal