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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, Understanding, Goes On

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Interesting, Found, Something Interesting
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife, President, Corporations
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Philosophical, Youth, Young
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mother, Children, Giving

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Hindsight, Richard'm Nixon

If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe, Struggle, Party

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Morning, War, Thinking

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

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Knowing, Being Real
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Quality, Might, Energy

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Two, Together, Size
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Success, Lying, Home
Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Kindness, Behavior, Bases
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, England, Problem

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Pain, Unemployment
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Spiritual, Strong, Thinking
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.45, Da Capo Press

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Courage, Faces

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Consent, Inferiors

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

Eleanor Roosevelt
Loss, Losing Friends, Lost

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Religious, Atheism, Lessons
Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Long Ago, Mind, Criticism
"My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. January 14, 1942.

Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Witty, Where You Are

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love You, Being In Love, Able

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

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

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