Pastoral Resources

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.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

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

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.

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.