Roots Quotes - Page 23

• I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

  Max Born

  Truth, Evil, World

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.143, Springer

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• Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Drawing, Justice

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• It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Skills, Racism, People

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• It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

  Isak Dinesen

  Eye, Past, Land

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.

  Carter Heyward

  Christian, Religious, Reality

  Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

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• Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, War, Two

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• You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

  Barry Lopez

  Education, Time, Learning

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Desert Notes and River Notes”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Drinking, Eye, Beer

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• The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

  Larry Ziegler

  Fun, Golf, Lasts

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• Now the autumn shudders
  In the rose's root.
  Far and wide the ladders
  Lean among the fruit.
  Now the autumn clambers
  Up the trellised frame,
  And the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.
  Brighter than the blossom
  On the rose's bough
  Sits the wizened orange,
  Bitter berry now;
  Beauty never slumbers;
  All is in her name;
  But the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Autumn, Dust, Names

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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• The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

  Desmond Morris

  Soccer, Lying, Past

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• The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Men, Silence

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• True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

  May Sarton

  Garden, Gloves, Bears

  May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.135, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Caring, Garden

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• Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

  Henry Fielding

  Money, Evil, Literature

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1814). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.79

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• To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Hatred, Despair

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol A. Dingle, p. 40, January 1, 2000.

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• First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.

  Robert Collier

  Mean, Growth, Desire

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• One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
  That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
  But also urges us to dare the stars,
  This irresistible, this ancient power
  Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
  That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Stars, Fighting

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• Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Pain, Going Away

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• The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'

  Drake

  Sex, Humble, Squares

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• In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

  Byron Katie

  Beautiful, Mistake, Fall

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• Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Pride, Dirt

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.106

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• Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

  Vaclav Havel

  Powerful, Patriotic, Rights

  "Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism" by Slavoj Zizek in London Review of Books, Volume 21, No. 21 (pp. 3-6), www.lrb.co.uk. October 28, 1999.

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