| "We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah |
| "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 |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money" »Ayn Rand |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil." »Plato |
| "Lack of money is the root of all evil." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "When you deserve something....... Don't expect it, because Expectation is the root cause of dissapointment" »Siddharth Astir |
| "Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good." »Kierkegaard |
| "Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating." »Val Peters |
| "Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution" »C. D. Tavares |
| "The love of truth lies at the root of much humor." »Robertson Davies |
| "Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness." »Mike Gill |
| "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty." »Lao Tzu |
| "The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education." »Plutarch |
| "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." »Max Born |
| "Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." »Henry Spencer |
| "Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings." »Carl Sandburg |
| "Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder." »Carl Sandburg |
| "Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." »Leigh Hunt |
| "The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector." »Plato |
| "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other." »Francis Bacon |
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