The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

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.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

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

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, ’cause we have a need to make sense.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.

Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, ‘course too pretty is also your doom, ’cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

You just can’t live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it’s a new day.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Thinking is seeing…. Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

I’ve never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is… lack of faith.

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

There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders – in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, … And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won’t be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA’s] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

So if you’re black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America… but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, ’cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She’s doing that to keep the Feds off her back.

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.