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Great Causes |
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 | Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 15 likes |
 | To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 11 likes |
 | A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 8 likes |
 | Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
| It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 likes |
 | There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 6 likes |
| Truth never damages a cause that is just. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 6 likes |
 | I love those who yearn for the impossible. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
 | If there was nothing wrong in the world, there wouldn't be anything for us to do. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
| To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | Every calling is great when greatly pursued. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 4 likes |
 | Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 4 likes |
 | The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
 | Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 3 likes |
| If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 3 likes |
 | They never fail who die in a great cause. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
| No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 2 likes |
 | Life is an effort that deserves a better cause. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Old age is not bearable without a great cause or a vice. |
 | In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. |
| The more one forgets himself —by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love— the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. |
 | Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. |
| A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. |
 | The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. |
 | We chase dreams and embrace shadows. |
 | Dying for a cause doesn’t make that cause just. |
 | It is not appropriate for a gentleman to support anything but a lost cause. |
 | The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text. |
 | A guy who's always interested in the condition of the world, and changing it, either has no problems of his own, or refuses to face them... not wanting to face things of his own nature. |
Latin Quotes
 | By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, (or V.V.V.V.V.; mentioned also in the graphic novel “V for Vendetta”) 134 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes. — from the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 6 likes |
