Human beings Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes…

— Eleanor Roosevelt