Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Novalis

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Dinesh D'Souza

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
Emanuel Celler

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
Wentworth Miller

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
Joseph Needham

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
John Harvey Kellogg

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Mencius

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
Wangari Maathai

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Mortimer Adler

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton