Quotes About The Root Of All Evil

#1. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

#2. Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Plato

#3. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [

Joshua Bloch

#4. I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Kato Kaelin

#5. Pchem is the root of all evil.

Daniel Lee

#6. Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion.

Soren Kierkegaard

#7. Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Norbert Leo Butz

#10. Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

Dalton Camp

#11. In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

Helen Lawrenson

#12. The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.

Ilona Andrews

#13. 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

#14. [If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Stephen Fry

#16. If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.

Neal Shusterman

#17. Door money. It's a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one's existence.

Carlos Wallace

#18. The want of money is the root of all evil.

Samuel Butler

#19. They do say money is the root of all evil."
I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."
There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

Jamie O'Neill

#20. Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose

Henry Ford

#21. There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Gene Simmons

#22. The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.

Ayn Rand

#23. Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#24. The love of theory is the root of all evil.

William M. Briggs

#25. COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil.
LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Carl Sandburg

#27. Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

Ayn Rand

#28. Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

William Penn

#29. The Bible doesn't say that money is the root of all evil; it says that love of money is.

William Deresiewicz

#30. Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought ... But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts

Fabolous

#31. Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

Helen DeWitt

#32. Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil ...

Rick Ross

#33. It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.

Toba Beta

#34. Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.

Louise Penny

#35. money so they say is the root of all evil today

Roger Waters

#36. As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Daniel Defoe

#37. The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Grant Bowler

#38. Money might be the root of all evil, but two million in stolen cash was mainly a hernia risk.

Carsten Stroud

#39. Many people would say that money is the root of all evil, which is not entirely true. The root of all evil is ignorance, and the economic state of our society is a result of ignorance.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#40. Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money,
doesn't that make it the root of all evil?

Alan VanMeter

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

Soren Kierkegaard

#42. Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Richard Dawkins

#43. Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.

Dorothy Koomson

#44. I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.

Molly Ivins

#45. Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.

Robert Downey Jr.

#46. Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

Criss Jami

#47. For example, one dad would say, "The love of money is the root of all evil." The other said, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#48. Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Desmond Green

#49. Money is not the root of all evil ... ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

Alan Cohen

#50. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

Elizabeth Taylor

#52. Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

Ice Cube

#53. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

Donald Knuth

#54. As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Zarina Bibi

#55. For the love of money is the root of all evil;

Augustine Of Hippo

#56. Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Evel Knievel

#57. Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Ben Affleck

#58. Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

Lil' Wayne

#59. The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.

Criss Jami

#60. The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Stuart Wilde

#61. Fear is the root of all evil. Better live a single day fearlessly than living a long but fearful life. Especially, never fear another human being. Fear is the root of all relationship problems.

His Holiness Divas

#62. Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.

Robert C. Martin

#63. Sexual organs are the root of all evil.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#64. Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

Eric Hoffer

#65. People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.

Brent Weeks

#66. Children are the root of all evil ... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

William John Locke

#67. He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.

John Updike

#68. The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

M.D. Birmingham

#69. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backward . . . was it possibly the root of all evil?

C.S. Lewis

#70. The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine' ...

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#71. It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#72. Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended ... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored ...

Soren Kierkegaard

#73. And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better.

Hilary Mantel

#74. I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Patricia Cornwell

#75. Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Michael Jackson

#76. Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Hannah More

#77. The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Gene Simmons

#78. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Robert A. Heinlein

#79. Money was not the root of all evil, it was just a vehicle that got you to power.

J.J. McAvoy

#80. Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Novala Takemoto

#81. The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.

Friedrich A. Hayek

#82. Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Elie Wiesel

#83. By grace (that is to say, by favor) we are plucked out of Adam, the ground of all evil, and grafted in Christ, the root of all goodness.28 You are chosen for Christ's sake to the inheritance of eternal life.29

Steven J. Lawson

#84. The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

Francis Bacon

#85. Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

Roseanne Barr

#86. An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.

Orson Pratt

#87. What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Gautama Buddha

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

Max Born

#89. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

#90. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.

Nina Mason

#91. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.

J.R. Ward

#92. But love, child, love is the root of all that is good, and the root of all things that are evil.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#93. A leader gathered his thoughts before he spoke; he did not rush to the podium to be adored. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.

J.R. Ward

#94. The problem isn't money. Money isn't the root of all kinds of evil, but the love of money is.

Kyle Idleman

#95. The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

Dave Ramsey

#96. Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.

Mark Lawrence

#97. I? This is the very root of all evil.

H.M. Forester

#98. Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.

Michael Gungor

#99. Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.

Jack Kerouac

#100. We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls," she told him. "Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do - at best - is prevent it from germinating.

David Gemmell