Roots Quotes - Page 17

• It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Fear, Atheism

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

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• Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Struggle, Abortion, Church

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• I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Punishment, Evil

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• This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Queens, Kings, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore (1961). “The wayfaring poet”

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• Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Political, Mind

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• If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop the desires - and they are together, they cannot be separated. This is one of the greatest insights that has come from all the enlightened people in the world - that desire is the root of all misery, and desirelessness is the cause of all that is beautiful and blissful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, People, Desire

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• There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

  Rajneesh

  Freedom, Cutting, Desire

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• Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a shell. Desiring is the world. To be worldly is to desire and to go on desiring, never becoming aware that each desire comes to nothing but frustration. Once you become aware of this, then you do not desire, or your only desire is to know what is.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Mean, Frustration

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• Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour, becomes frustration. Each hope leads you into anguish. Buddha calls it the only impurity. Cut the roots of desire, live in the moment so totally, pull yourself out of the past and don`t project yourself into the future. Let this moment be all and all. And your life will have such a purity, such a crystal-clear consciousness that right now you cannot imagine.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Cutting, Frustration

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• When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, Heart, Rivers

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• Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Thank You, Gratitude

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 4, ch. 32

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• A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.

  Jacques Maritain

  Christian, Gratitude, Men

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• Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Ocean, Men

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• And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

  Ben Jonson

  Flower, Feet, Where She Went

  Ben Jonson (1875). “The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham”, p.238

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• It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Order, Thank God

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• The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

  James Carlton

  Ocean, Years, Sea

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• Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Running, Moving, Animal

  "The Electric Brain". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.

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• At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

  Robert Hilburn

  Order, Class, Arrogance

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• The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Moon, Light, Stronger

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• We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Reality

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• Strawberries that in gardens grow
  Are plump and juicy fine,
  But sweeter far as wise men know
  Spring from the woodland vine.
  No need for bowl or silver spoon,
  Sugar or spice or cream,
  Has the wild berry plucked in June
  Beside the trickling stream.
  One such to melt at the tongue's root,
  Confounding taste with scent,
  Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
  Which points my argument.

  Robert Graves

  Summer, Wise, Spring

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

  Son Eun-seo

  Drama, Moving, Tree

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• Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

  Jean Charest

  Family, Fall, White

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• Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Errors, Comfort, Habit

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• The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

  Carolyn Rodgers

  Father

  Carolyn M. Rodgers (1975). “How I got ovah: new and selected poems”

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