Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

We do have a moral responsibility to reach out to our neighbors in need.

Surly bleeding hearts are better than bleeding bodies.

I wanted to help the world be more just.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.

Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner.

The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

It's difficult to expect kids not to bully one another when they don't have many examples otherwise in society.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.