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“Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.”

“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.”

People War Christian Fighting Christianity Records Holy Europe Roots Prejudice Islam Western East Tolerance Violent Crusades Western Europe Holy War

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.”

“The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.”

Wells War Earth Moving Community Economic Roots Well Being Soil Yield Agriculture Commodity Ecological Ecosystems Making Peace Measuring Economic Systems Gdp

Author:Vandana Shiva

“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.”

May War Poor Spring Roots Fruit Graves Civil War Brown Bitterness John Brown

Author:Fanny Kemble

“lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.”

People Trying War Self Problem Fighting Causes Self Esteem Roots Esteem

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.”

Thinking Way War Happens Found Causes Party Situation Bears Conflict Roots Blame Irrational Catastrophe Way Of Thinking Wrong Way Root Cause Causes Of Conflict

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”

World Way War Reason Tree Blood Movement Roots War Of The Worlds Our Time Rising Remarkable World War Ii World War I Twisted Pulse Sap Upheaval Stampede

Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick

“Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.”

People Important War Process Modern Roots Divorce Ritual Rip Ordeals Culmination Important Relationships

Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.”

Years Persons War Stories Issues Television Majors News Advantage Roots Radio Locals Grass Recessions Television News

Author:George Noory

“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.”

Thinking Giving Wells War States Reality Causes Goal Cases Achieve Subjects Roots Historical Population Careful Israel Decades Refugee Root Cause

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”

War States Whole Truth Is Authority Roots Administration Assumption Department Secretary Ignored Interference Subordinates Demoralized Taft

Author:William Howard Taft

“Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.”

War Suffering Friendship Silence Roots Distance Imprisonment

Author:Pam Brown

“War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.”

War Jesus Christ Justice Principles Jesus Christ Roots And Love Universal Yield Justice And Love

Book:Lecture on War

Source: Lecture on War

“E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.”

War Light Earth Dark Sky Wind Waste Roots Rounds Heavy Storm Wide Golden Grain Agriculture Harvest Rapids Stalking Straws Pluck

Book:Virgil

Source: Virgil

“The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.”

“After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the best way to help the women in this beleaguered country was to start a small beauty school in Kabul, where aid workers could get their roots done. Vanity Fair, edited by Bush-basher Graydon Carter, cheered her great humanitarian effort.”

“The root of war is fear.”

Book:Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

Source: Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

“We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.”

Knows War Movement Roots Democrat Grass Anti War Anti War Movement

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.”

“...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.”

People Giving Feels Should Trying Made Said War Country America Nations White Enemy Rights Position Comfort Crosses Roots Aim Aids Civil Rights Burning Patriotic Supportive Dissent Sean

Author:Ann Coulter

“Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.”

Knows World War Seems America Bits Interest Deals Students Draws Roots Historical Posts War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“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.”

Ifs Way Want Believe War I Believe Causes Answers Poverty Roots Crisis Environmental Hunger Global Warming Genocide Usual Symptoms Root Cause Environmental Crisis Hunger Poverty

Author:Tom Shadyac

“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.”

World Way Humans War Spiritual Form Suffering Causes Water Animal Poverty Air Emotional Disease Roots Treats Clean Starvation Human Suffering Root Cause Clean Air Air And Water

Author:Sharon Gannon

“[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

Thinking War America Values Culture President Imagine Roots American Values

Author:Mark Penn

“The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.”

War Spirit Evil Peace Weapons Roots Construction Anti War Antiwar Conquest

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root”

Way War Stories Roots Traps Traveled Commanders Listen To Me Julius Convicts War Stories

Book:Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2

Source: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2

“In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.”

Ifs War Enough Helping Suffering Friendship Silence Loneliness Flower Roots Distance Mere Endure Confusion Sickness Powerless Imprisonment Funny Friend

Author:Pam Brown

“The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.”

Way War Industry Roots Our Society Daily Life Goods Peace Is Every Step

Book:Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots are in ignorance. Without understanding we can easily become frightened by life’s fleeting changes, the inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death. Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying.”

“God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.”

War Earth Christian Spirit Names Christ Enemy Arms Kings Roots Joyful Medieval War Kings And Princes

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.”

People Way Kind Art Two War Today Grows Dangerous Grew Roots Customers All Kinds Grass Venture Joints Art Of War Alliances Two Ways Acquisition Partnering Joint Ventures

Author:Peter Drucker

“We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.”

Long War Reality Political Military Solutions Standing Roots Accounts Iraq Population Repeats Lasting Repeating History History Repeats Itself

Author:Barbara Lee

“War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.”

War Sea Behavior Roots Cells Antiwar Primeval

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”

War Cold Roots Regimes Cold War Bayonets

Author:Ronald Reagan

“To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.”

Way Feels Looks Stills War Self Pain Remember Lying Night Water Sleep Rooms Blood Goes On Return Mountain Roots Window Wake Up Down And Green Trash Stairs Mixing

Author:Etel Adnan