Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Peace
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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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.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born: October 11, 1884
- Died: November 7, 1962
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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