Root Cause Quotes - Page 3

• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Peace, Freedom, Inspiration

  Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.

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• The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Keys, Roots

  "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.

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• 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

  War, Reality, Thinking

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Racism, Doe, Reign

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• A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Warfare, Poverty

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.285, Vintage

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• Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Self, Roots

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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• Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

  Willy Brandt

  War, Opportunity, Being Thankful

  Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

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• 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

  Religious, Roots, Rights

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Roots, Ego

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• The programs supported by the International Affairs Budget are as essential to our national security as defense programs. Development and diplomacy protect our nation by addressing the root causes of terrorism and conflict. But it's not just about security. By building new markets overseas for American products, the International Affairs Budget creates jobs and boosts the economy here at home.

  Tom Ridge

  Jobs, Home, Roots

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow 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 really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Fighting, Government

  "Lupe Fiasco calls President Obama 'Biggest Terrorist'" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. June 8, 2011.

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

  Edward Said

  Islamic, Oil, Roots

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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

  Mean, Loss, Roots

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• I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Views, Roots, Long

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• The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws are legitimate except God's law, and no government is legitimate except those who rule as God's deputies, implementing God's laws alone, which no-one has the power to change. So I say to you: if you really want to root out corruption now so widespread on God's earth, stand up and fight against corrupt rule; take power and use it on God's behalf. It is useless to think you change things by preaching alone.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.

  Edward Said

  Independent, Roots, Organization

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There isn't a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.

  Edward Said

  Independent, Clear Goals, Sight

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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

  Roots, Rights, Causes

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• If you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fighting, Roots, Causes

  "Bill O'Reilly Confronts Rapper Lupe Fiasco Over Calling Obama a 'Terrorist'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Roots, Needs, Causes

  "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Roots

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• 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

  Roots, Anxiety, Scary

  Source: www.theshowlastnight.com

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