"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the……" — Eleanor Roosevelt

"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt has 390 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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