The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
~By Plato ~
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
~By Gerald Clarke ~
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
~By Manly Hall ~
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~By Julius Caesar ~
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.
~By Rob Mariano ~
Evil events from evil causes spring.
~By Aristophanes ~
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~By Thucydides ~
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
~By Paul Ryan ~
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
~By Jack L. Chalker ~
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
~By Anacharsis ~
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.
~By Elihu Root ~
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
~By Henry A. Wise ~
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
~By Michael Berryman ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
~By Elizabeth I ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
~By Raymond Hull ~
I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.
~By Howard Coble ~
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
~By Dave Barry ~
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
~By Larry Elder ~
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
~By Clare Short ~
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
~By Judd Nelson ~
A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.
~By William Baldwin ~
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
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.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
~By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ~
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
~By William Wordsworth ~
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.
~By Vicente Fox ~
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
~By Jon Crosby ~
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
~By James Tobin ~
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~By Matthew Arnold ~
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
~By William E. Simon ~
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.
~By Peter Yarrow ~
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
~By E. M. Forster ~
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
~By Gerald McRaney ~
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
~By Michel Foucault ~
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.
~By William Gilbert ~
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
~By Janet Flanner ~
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
~By Richard Armour ~
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
~By Frank Dobson ~
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
~By Charles Fillmore ~
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
~By Austin Peck ~
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
~By Edward Bach ~
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
~By William Petty ~
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
~By Serge Lang ~
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
~By John Tillotson ~
The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.
~By Elihu Root ~
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
~By Freya Stark ~
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
~By Brian Moore ~
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
~By Meir Kahane ~
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Grief causes suffering and disease.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
~By Tom DeLay ~
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
~By Melinda Gates ~
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
~By Claudia Christian ~
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
In some causes silence is dangerous.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.
~By Uberto Crescenti ~
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
~By Brent Spiner ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
~By Geena Davis ~
The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
~By Ayatollah Khamenei ~
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
~By George Aiken ~
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
~By Frances Wright ~
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.
~By Ed Markey ~
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
~By Franz Boas ~
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