All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
