"...so much attention is paid to the aggressive……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt has 390 quotes on this site.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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