"those who attack always do so with..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
More on Conflict
“Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.”
“Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.”
“Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.”
More on Human Nature
“The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.”
“I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.”
“There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.”