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Poverty is not the root cause of crime. -- Rush Limbaugh
True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism. -- Lupe Fiasco
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? -- Paul Ryan
The root cause of terrorism is terrorists. -- Pierre Poilievre
Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties. -- Plato
Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life. -- Zhi Gang Sha
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego. -- Rajneesh
We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure. -- David Cooperrider
There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. -- Marion Milner
There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. -- Marion Milner
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. -- Rick Warren
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. -- Arno Gruen
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. -- James Tobin
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. -- Ernest Becker
There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. -- Anne Nicol Gaylor
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. -- Clayton Christensen
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. -- George Orwell
Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems. -- Narendra Modi
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. -- Eric Ries
From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies. -- Henry Paulson
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem. -- Mike Royko
During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes. -- Michelle Bachelet
I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally. -- Suzanne Somers
I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days. -- Rain
Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations. -- Oscar Arias
All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice. It may not be a completely free choice, but you can choose which mood you spend the most time in. -- Liz Miller
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. -- Mahavira
The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. Jim Rickards is a natural teacher. Any serious student of financial crises and their root causes needs to read this book. -- John H. Makin
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come. -- Muhammad Yunus
civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it -- Colin Powell
Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections. -- Bill Jensen
The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world. -- Max Born
I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies -- Henry Paulson
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do. -- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena. -- Dalai Lama
There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. -- Joanna Field
I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways. -- Tom Shadyac
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery. -- Rajneesh
At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty. -- Helene D. Gayle
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering. -- Sharon Gannon
On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of many of our complaints: our lack of energy, our fatigue, our depression, why our immune systems are blown, why we lack enthusiasm and courage for life. -- Robert Moss
I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary. -- Matty Mullins
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. -- Martin Luther
Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity... -- Albert Einstein
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems. -- Poul Hartling
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. -- Wangari Maathai
I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's just some oil. -- Lupe Fiasco
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book. -- Amish Tripathi
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No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. -- Rush Limbaugh
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. -- Elihu Root
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. -- Elihu Root
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. -- Elihu Root
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. -- Pema Chodron
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. -- Nikolai Gogol
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love. -- Warren W. Wiersbe

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