Top 100 Root Of Evil Quotes
#1. Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
Edward Abbey
#2. It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. 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
#5. The pastor looks at the money. It is money coming from the wife of a sodomite. It is money coming from a woman. It is the deep-lying root of evil. But it is a lot of money.
Jessie Burton
#6. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.
J.R. Ward
#7. 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
#8. Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.
Ayn Rand
#9. And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Moliere
#10. 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
#11. Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.
Ace Hood
#12. The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#13. Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Elie Wiesel
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
Frederick Douglass
#17. Our heart is a garden, which the good God has given us to cultivate, and we must always be aware of the weeds that grow without observation. It is necessary that we should unceasingly apply ourselves to the cultivation of the good and the extraction of the evil which might take root.
Christoph Von Schmid
#18. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [
Joshua Bloch
#20. I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.
Kato Kaelin
#22. 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
#24. The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
Bertrand Russell
#25. Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#26. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
Dalton Camp
#32. The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.
Ilona Andrews
#33. Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
Ernest Becker
#34. Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
#35. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
Susan B. Anthony
#46. Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil
Christopher Hitchens
#47. Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg
#48. 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
#49. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.
Nina Mason
#50. For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau
Stephen Covey
#51. I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#52. The Bible doesn't say that money is the root of all evil; it says that love of money is.
William Deresiewicz
#53. Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought ... But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts
Fabolous
#54. Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.
Helen DeWitt
#55. Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil ...
Rick Ross
#56. It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
Toba Beta
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money,
doesn't that make it the root of all evil?
Alan VanMeter
#62. Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
#63. Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
Richard Dawkins
#64. Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murray
#65. The problem isn't money. Money isn't the root of all kinds of evil, but the love of money is.
Kyle Idleman
#66. The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.
Dave Ramsey
#67. 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
#68. 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.
#70. Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.
Desmond Green
#72. How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?
Elizabeth Taylor
#73. 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
#74. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig Von Mises
#76. Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
Rosa Luxemburg
#77. Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
Evel Knievel
#78. Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
#79. 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
#80. Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil
Lil' Wayne
#81. 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
#82. The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
Stuart Wilde
#83. 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
#84. 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
#86. The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.
Adolf Hitler
#88. The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
Freeman Dyson
#89. 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
#90. Children are the root of all evil ... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.
William John Locke
#91. 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
#92. The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
M.D. Birmingham
#94. 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
#95. As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities ... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing ...
Eugene Delacroix
#96. Up until the twentieth century, traditional cultures (and this is still true of most cultures in the world) always believed that too high a view of yourself was the root cause of all the evil in the world.
Timothy J. Keller
#97. The source and root of all monetary evil [is] the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. - Friedrich Hayek
George Gilder
#99. 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
#100. 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
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