5 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Ethics

Eleanor Roosevelt quotes on ethics

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

16. It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

28. Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)

38. Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. (22 August 1944)

44. This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people. (16 April 1954 )