Causes Quotes

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
Paul Farmer

Parents, Involved, Activists

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
Howard Baker

Rather, Trouble, Almost

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.
Sinead O'Connor

Proud, Trouble, Happens

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
Vicente Fox

Experience, May, Together

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.
Heather Mills

Love, Work, Hate

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
Ingrid Newkirk

Fear, Eyes, Suffering

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Shelley Winters

Happy, Live, Together

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco Guicciardini

Change, Time, Simply

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
Keith Henson

Brain, Attention, Social

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
Michael Ignatieff

Good, Themselves, Larger

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.
Mark Hyman

Meaning, Miss, Either

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Alone, Today, United

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.
Alastair Campbell

Help, Political, Continue

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.
Scarlett Johansson

Money, Give, Telling

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
William Gilbert

Secret, Sure, Opinions

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright

Religion, May, Belief

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
Norman Lear

Care, Made, Shows

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.
Ismail Haniyeh

Hope, War, Give

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara

Happen, Secret, Film

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
Brian Mulroney

Great, Political, Country

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Brian Mulroney

Political, Afraid, Spend

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Elihu Root

Peace, Feeling, Human

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
Georg Simmel

Mind, Between, Personal

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
Charles Sturt

Successful, Industry, Importance

It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
Peter Andre

Important, Cancer, Known

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
Margaret Chase Smith

Today, Thinking, Talk

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Richard Armour

Trouble, Trivial, Larger

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey

Death, Knowledge, Smoking

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

Time, Money, Crisis

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
Kit Bond

Death, Small, Tax

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