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107,128. What was the just cause in supporting Suharto? … What was the just cause when we invaded South Vietnam? … In Central America in the 1980s killing hundreds of thousands of people? … We did it, therefore it’s a just cause: you can read that in the Nazi archives too. (Empire US & Cause) Noam Chomsky, compilation ‘War, State Power, and American Exceptionalism’, Youtube The Essentials 2.43.03
65,829. ‘By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.’
‘I shall be delighted.’
‘You don’t mind breaking the law?’
‘Not in the least.’
‘Nor running a chance of arrest?’
‘Not in a good cause.’
‘Oh, the cause is excellent!’
‘Then I am your man.’
‘I was sure that I might rely on you.’ (Burglary & Cause & Law & Arrest) Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
40,695. I’m the only cause I’m interested in. (Love & Politics & Cause) Casablanca 1942 ***** starring Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman & Paul Henreid & Claude Rains & Conrad Veidt & Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre & Curt Bois et al, director Michael Curtiz, Rick to Ilsa
24,891. There is something attractive about a lost cause. (Star trek & Cause) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Blaze of Glory s5e23, Sisko to Dax
63,671. The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments. (Argument & Cause) R A Fisher 1890-1962
66,019. You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that. (Campaign & Cause) Tony Benn
66,327. ’Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, – and of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
66,328. Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. Albert Einstein
66,329. Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill amongst men and peace on Earth. Albert Einstein
66,330. Plain living and high thinking are no more:
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone. William Wordsworth
66,331. A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King
66,332. It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. Andrew Young
66,333. A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, The Title act I, 1918
66,334. You have a gift, sir, (thank your education),
Will never let you want, while there are men,
And malice, to breed causes. Ben Jonson, Volpone 1606
66,335. There aren’t any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won’t be in aid of the old-fashioned, grand design. It’ll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank-you. About as pointless and inglorious as stepping in front of a bus. John Osborne, Look Back in Anger 1956
66,336. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. William Shakespeare, II Henry VI III ii 232
66,337. Most just and heavy causes make oppose. ibid. V i 29, Albany
46,069. But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath the heavy reckoning to make. (Shakespeare & King & Cause) Henry V 2012 starring Tim Hiddleston & Geraldine Chaplin & Paul Freeman & Julie Walters & John Hurt & Tom Georgeson & Richard Griffiths & Paterson Joseph & James Laurenson et al, director Thea Sharrock, soldier
66,338. Report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied. William Shakespeare, Hamlet V ii 353
66,339. Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment. (Cause & Enthusiasm) William Howard Taft
66,340. I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause. Angelina Jolie
66,341. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. (Cause & Activism & Failure & Probability) Abraham Lincoln
66,342. No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus
66,343. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Christopher Hitchens
66,344. Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo
9,097. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. (Philosophy & Cause & Argument) Friedrich Nietzsche
77,398. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause. (Intolerance & Cause) Mahatma Gandhi
911. Truth never damages a cause that is just. (Truth & Cause) Mahatma Gandhi
96,700. Usually after one of these arguments, Owen would wander off by himself, with his head throbbing and a feeling of unutterable depression and misery at his heart; weighed down by a growing conviction of the hopelessness of everything, of the folly of expecting that his fellow workmen would ever be willing to try to understand for themselves the causes that produced their sufferings. It was not that those causes were so obscure that it required exceptional intelligence to perceive them. (Poverty & Cause & Depression) Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist