{"quotes":[{"text":"There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a cause, no matter how ridiculous, it will be seen and heard.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["act","action","causes","change","heard","idea","improvement","noticed","power","seen","together","unity"],"id":8185,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors—the living—could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs—those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact—had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not whol.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["boyhood","causes","childhood","christian-martyrs","christianity","comrades","conscription","death","fanaticism","friends","kamikaze","martyrdom","martyrs","masochism","memorials","november","orwell","patriotism","poppies","principles","religion","sacrifice","self-abnegation","self-importance","soldiers","suicide","suicide-attack","theocracy","torture","ugliness","war"],"id":11922,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attention","away","causes","draws","focus","god","money","ourselves","prosperity","reality-of-life","riches","truth-of-life","wealth"],"id":42194,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["causes","charity","life-missions","life-purpose","organizations","satan","spirit","temptation","writers"],"id":50089,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.","author":"Christian D. Larson","tags":["causes","failure","giving-up","habit","half-finished"],"id":63451,"author_id":"Christian+D.+Larson"},{"text":"The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn't consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","activist","blessings","causes","change","debate","difference","different","divergent","free-thinkers","freedom","global-change","good","integrity","life","open-mindedness","perspectives","right","soical-change","solutions","standing-up-for-what-is-right","unique","voices"],"id":81896,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors—the living—could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs—those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact—had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not wholesome. Your life?","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["boyhood","causes","childhood","christian-martyrs","christianity","comrades","conscription","death","fanaticism","friends","kamikaze","martyrdom","martyrs","masochism","memorials","november","orwell","patriotism","poppies","principles","religion","sacrifice","self-abnegation","self-importance","soldiers","suicide","suicide-attack","theocracy","torture","ugliness","war"],"id":95133,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.","author":"Virgil","tags":["causes","happiness","knowledge"],"id":98522,"author_id":"Virgil"},{"text":"Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.","author":"Irving Kirsch","tags":["causes","depression","normal","social"],"id":122446,"author_id":"Irving+Kirsch"},{"text":"Let 'the cause' become the 'because' – the reason – for people to do business with and to refer business to you.","author":"Timothy M. Houston","tags":["causes","marketing","marketing-advice","marketing-skills","networking","networking-advice","networking-skills","referral-systems","referrals","relationships","sales","sales-skills","sales-training"],"id":168300,"author_id":"Timothy+M.+Houston"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}