Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Believe, Fidgeting

  Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Running, Peace

• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Teacher, Peace

• Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, Political

• We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Military

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 156), 1992.

• This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Action

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

• If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Suffering

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

• Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Leadership, Peace, Trying

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.99, Da Capo Press

• I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Children, War

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