Quote: No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Author: Steven Biko 1946-1977, South African Political Activist
Quote: Men are blind in their own cause.
Author: Heywood Broun 1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist
Quote: The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
Author: William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925, American Lawyer, Politician
Quote: In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.
Author: Thomas E. Dewey 1902-1971, American Politician
Quote: A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
Author: Freeman Dyson 1923-, British-born American Physicist, Author
Quote: Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Author: Emma Goldman 1869-1940, American Anarchist
Quote: It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
Author: Madame Guizot
Quote: The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
Author: William P. Merrill
Quote: The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
Author: Brian Moore 1921-, Irish Novelist
Quote: It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
Author: Robin Morgan 1941-, American Feminist Author, Poet
Quote: Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Author: Iris Murdoch 1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Great causes and little men go ill together.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman
Quote: You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Quote: A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Author: Wendell Phillips 1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator
Quote: No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
Author: John W. Scoville
Quote: Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Author: Leon Trotsky 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionary