Quotes: Causes

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.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.