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

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
Nick Clooney

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.
Julius Wellhausen

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig von Mises

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Samuel Smiles

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas W. Higginson

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
Carson McCullers

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
Asa Gray

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Marion Milner