Bad Causes Quotes

#1. It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Jeff Ament

#2. The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes.

Richard H. Thaler

#3. In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

Heather O'Neill

#4. Some ladies got the shower massager. Oh, man, you better buy her a diamond 'cause if she got a shower massager, she don't really need you anymore. That shower massager makes a woman shake like a car on bad gas going up a hill.

Jay Mohr

#5. Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

William Hazlitt

#6. It's all fun and games until you have a bad sports bra that causes your boobs to chafe.

Dawn Dais

#7. If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.

Will Rogers

#8. The leftist philosophy of violence is simple: It's good when it's being used for leftist causes. It's bad when it's being used for any other purpose.

Ben Shapiro

#9. We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car ... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

Gerald McRaney

#10. I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

Donna Summer

#11. Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

#12. A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

Thomas Paine

#13. When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.

Anne Fadiman

#14. Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

Robin Sharma

#15. The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't.
This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.

Tom O'Brien

#16. I drink when I want and how much I want. Sometimes I get in really bad states, but it doesn't cause me or anyone else any problems.

Kelvin Fletcher

#17. We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.

Jeff Jarvis

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

Manly Hall

#19. True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

Baruch Spinoza

#20. Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.

James Hillman

#22. I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.

Frederick Douglass

#23. Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

Anne Hathaway

#24. Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

Warren Buffett

#25. It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

Francis Bacon

#26. Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

Robert Kennedy

#27. I never read if I can help it. It is terribly bad for the eyes. And it causes one's forehead to wrinkle most horribly, just there.

Gail Carriger

#28. The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

Philip Yancey

#29. The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; the pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors. When

Martin E.P. Seligman

#30. Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.

Rachel Simmons

#31. Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,

Dave Barry

#32. A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

James Madison

#33. Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.

Charlyne Yi

#34. We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

Janet Macunovich

#35. My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

Linda Ronstadt

#36. Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

Joshua Micah Marshall

#37. I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.

Huey Newton

#38. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Gautama Buddha

#39. If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

Curtis Jackson

#40. Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

Fay Weldon

#41. Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

Miuccia Prada

#42. Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

Frank Pittman

#43. I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

James Sinegal

#44. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#45. A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

Bertrand Russell

#46. 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

Benedict Joseph Labre

#47. On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

Horace Mann

#48. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

Bill O'Reilly

#49. Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

Will Rogers

#50. One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#51. Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

Taiichi Ohno

#52. Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.

Marianne Williamson

#53. Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

Conor Oberst

#54. Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

Nigel Dennis

#55. The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#56. Shame exists where there is sin, and so feeling ashamed, particularly when we sin, is natural and healthy. Therefore, shame is not bad, but unless the underlying sin that causes the shame is properly dealt with through the gospel, then the shame will remain, with devastating implications.

Mark Driscoll

#57. of oxygen, whether we think of it as 'good' or 'bad', is the formation of free radicals. As conventionally stated, the idea that breathing oxygen causes ageing is disarmingly simple. We produce free

Nick Lane

#58. Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

Charles Petzold

#60. For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

Desmond Tutu

#61. I don't think I could stab somebody, cause I'm really bad at a Capri Sun.

Daniel Tosh

#62. If what has happened makes us happy, we call it "good." If it causes pain, we call it "bad.

Bruce Van Horn

#63. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

James Cook

#64. At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

Cameron Russell