Pastoral Resources

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

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.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

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.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.