Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

World history is tragic.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.