Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Rush Limbaugh

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
Angela Davis

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
Archie Shepp

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William C. Bryant

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
Joseph Henry

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
William Law

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Henry Ellis

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.
Wink Martindale

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.
Lawrence Taylor

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
Josiah Stamp

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.
Julius Streicher

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
Daniel Dennett

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain