Multiple Causes Quotes

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

People have looked at all sorts of effects of globalization and blamed trade. But it's lots of things.

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

The larger the event, the less likelihood of having a single cause or origin.

In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.'

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.