Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Women have a great responsibility...to try...to prevent another war. I hope...that we will be able to use this great atomic energy...for peaceful work.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

Today nuclear weapons are a blunt instrument. Problems cannot be solved through bombs. They are of little use. We need logic.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

The people who know war, those who have experienced it ... I believe are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world.

I don't think soldiers should be anywhere in the world. I mean, that is a moral and a basic philosophy. I think that the only way to end wars is to have no military and to find other ways in which - I think we should suspend all nuclear weapons.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I am against all war.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

We must take the profit out of war.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.