Rooted Quotes - Page 4

• The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

  Erich Fromm

  Power, Lust, Weakness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Communication, Men

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

  Washington Irving

  Writing, Principles, Language

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

  David Brooks

  Honesty, Character, Arrows

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• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

  David Korten

  Suicide, Goal, People

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• Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.

  Emma Watson

  Real, Opportunity, Rights

  "UN Women announces Emma Watson as Goodwill Ambassador". www.unwomen.org. July 8, 2014.

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• There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

  Fred Ward

  Creative, Impulse, Felt

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

  William James

  Life, Success, Strong

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• Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Principles, Depth, Faces

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
  one rooted in pavements.

  Aldo Leopold

  Doubt, Pavement, Soil

  Aldo Leopold, Susan Flader, J. Baird Callicott (1991). “The river of the mother of God and other essays”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, Country, Responsibility

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Objectivity, Islam, Fundamentals

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• What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone who possesses and wields power. Jesus forces people to consider whether that deeply rooted conviction is true or not. In historical terms it is readily apparent that power, left to its own inertial tendencies, tends to be oppressive in fact. So it cannot be the ultimate meditation of God, though human beings might tend to think so

  Jon Sobrino

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted in the proven principles of long-term investing and of trusteeship that demands integrity in serving our clients.

  John C. Bogle

  Integrity, Long, Vision

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life”, p.156, John Wiley & Sons

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• Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

  Peter Lovesey

  Real, Pages Turning, Plot

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• Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

  Mary Archer

  Grounded, Attraction

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

  Rick Santorum

  Strong, Pride, Vanity

  "Rick Santorum defends Satan speech - by comparing himself to Ronald Reagan" by Toby Harnden, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 22, 2012.

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• The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Common Humanity, Interesting, Peaceful

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• Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

  Gillian Anderson

  Relationship, Lasts, X Files

  "Fictional character: Dana Scully". "The X-Files/ The Rain King", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Art, Two

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• Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Layers, Superstitions, Sensitive

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Animal

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• What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

  Laozi

  Inspirational

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.77, Chinese University Press

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• I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

  Frances Fox Piven

  People, Groups, Cooperation

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