cause quotes

9 quotes

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Noam Chomsky

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

H. L. Mencken

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Baruch Spinoza

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

C. S. Lewis

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi