Top 100 The 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. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.
J.R. Ward
#6. 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
#7. Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.
Ace Hood
#8. The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#9. Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Elie Wiesel
#10. 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
#11. Ignorance: the root of all evil.
Plato
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [
Joshua Bloch
#17. I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.
Kato Kaelin
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#23. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
Dalton Camp
#30. 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
#31. The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.
Ilona Andrews
#32. Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
Ernest Becker
#33. Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
#34. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
#35. 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
#36. [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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#41. 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
#42. Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose
Henry Ford
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
#46. 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
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil
Christopher Hitchens
#53. Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg
#54. 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
#55. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.
Nina Mason
#56. For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau
Stephen Covey
#57. 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
#58. Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
William Penn
#59. The Bible doesn't say that money is the root of all evil; it says that love of money is.
William Deresiewicz
#60. Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought ... But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts
Fabolous
#61. But love, child, love is the root of all that is good, and the root of all things that are evil.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#62. Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.
Helen DeWitt
#63. Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil ...
Rick Ross
#64. It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
Toba Beta
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. money so they say is the root of all evil today
Roger Waters
#68. As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe
#69. 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
#70. Money might be the root of all evil, but two million in stolen cash was mainly a hernia risk.
Carsten Stroud
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money,
doesn't that make it the root of all evil?
Alan VanMeter
#75. Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
#76. Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
Richard Dawkins
#77. 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
#78. The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.
George Orwell
#79. The problem isn't money. Money isn't the root of all kinds of evil, but the love of money is.
Kyle Idleman
#80. The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.
Dave Ramsey
#81. 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
#82. I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins
#83. 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.
#84. A distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
Arno Gruen
#85. Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
Criss Jami
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.
Desmond Green
#90. 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
#92. How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?
Elizabeth Taylor
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig Von Mises
#96. 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
#98. Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
Rosa Luxemburg
#99. Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
Evel Knievel
#100. Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
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