Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
Bede Griffiths

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Carl Jung

Pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Veil

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.
Olive Schreiner

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