I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.