Noble Causes Quotes

#1. Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Barbara Mertz

#2. The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

Emiliano Zapata

#3. Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

Linda Grant

#4. You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

Brian Mulroney

#5. You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

George W. Bush

#6. What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Winston Churchill

#7. You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#8. A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

Philip Sidney

#9. If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die.

Kathy Acker

#10. It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

Ronald Reagan

#11. I tire of this constant longing that follows me as night follows day, unceasing.

Ava Zavora

#12. The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army
his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

Richard Stallman

#14. The most noble
cause known to man
is the liberation
of the human mind
and spirit.

Maya Angelou

#15. A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.

Boonaa Mohammed

#16. The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

John Wooden

#17. Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Aristotle.

#18. There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Larry Niven

#19. Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

Hanna Rosin

#20. Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

Lloyd Alexander

#21. I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

Billy Joel

#22. Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.
Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.
Poetry causes the increase of the human race.
Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.
Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.
Poetry is the royal essence of beauty.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#23. There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#24. The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Pema Chodron

#25. Life's unexpected, Gray. Hearts come and go. if you want hers, then take it.

Ella Frank

#26. The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

William O. Douglas

#27. Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

George Washington

#28. Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#29. Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.

Wolfgang Laib

#30. What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

Marisha Pessl

#31. Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

Wilferd Peterson