Root Quotes - page 2

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. (John Steinbeck)
Though leaves are many, the root is one Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. View quote
Robertson Davies
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. View quote
Havelock Ellis
To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
Astonishment is the root of philosophy. View quote
Paul Tillich
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The lack of money is the root of all evil. View quote
Mark Twain
To be radical is to grasp things by the root. (Karl Marx)
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. View quote
C. A. R. Hoare
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket-not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. View quote
Bodhidharma
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. View quote
Emanuel Celler
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. View quote
Norman Jewison
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. View quote
Olive Schreiner
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? (Robert Dale Owen)
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God. View quote
William Lane Craig
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter. View quote
William James
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced. View quote
Ayn Rand
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational. View quote
Ayn Rand