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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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”

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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