Root Cause Quotes

• Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Poverty, Causes

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• Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Roots, Causes

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• 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

  Fighting, Fire, Roots

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• We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

  David Cooperrider

  Success, Failure, Discovery

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fall, Learning

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

  Rick Warren

  Stress, Roots, Overcoming Adversity

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.164, Zondervan

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• 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

  Roots, Over You, Causes

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  Marion Milner

  Roots, Causes, Obstacles

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

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• 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

  Moving, Roots, Tree

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• 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

  Real, Men, Roots

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Agony, Giving, Society

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• Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Peace, Fighting, Ubuntu

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• The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Roots, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

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• 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

  War, Believe, Hunger Poverty

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• The root cause of terrorism is terrorists.

  Pierre Poilievre

  Roots, Causes, Terrorism

  "Pierre Poilievre: 'The Root Cause Of Terrorism Is Terrorists'". www.huffingtonpost.ca. April 24, 2013.

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• Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Cutting, Oneness

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.239, M A Center

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Party, Thinking

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• 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

  Spiritual, War, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• 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

  Class, Roots, Growth

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Roots, Causes

  Zhi Gang Sha (2012). “The Power of Soul”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• ...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

  Arno Gruen

  Roots, Evil, Elements

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• 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

  Memorial Day, Peace, Ubuntu

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

  Vishnudevananda Saraswati

  Yoga, Roots, Medical Science

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