Science & Tech Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Roosevelt reaches for a phrase that sounds almost clinical - "the science of human relationships" - because he’s selling peace as something sturdier than goodwill. In the middle of a century defined by mechanized slaughter and economic collapse, sentiment had proven flimsy; institutions, coordination, and disciplined habits of cooperation were the only plausible counterweight. Calling it a science recasts diplomacy and pluralism as learnable, scalable skills, not moral luxuries reserved for enlightened elites. It’s a move meant to disarm cynics: you don’t have to trust human nature to build systems that constrain its worst impulses.

The line also carries the stamp of Roosevelt’s New Deal pragmatism. He understood politics as administration plus narrative: you name a crisis, then you invent the toolkit to meet it. Here, the crisis is civilizational survival itself, and the toolkit is relationship-building across "all peoples, of all kinds" - a deliberately expansive phrase that reads like a bridge from domestic pluralism to international order. The subtext is unmistakably post-isolationist: America can’t pretend the world’s conflicts are quarantined overseas. Peace is not a break between wars; it’s infrastructure.

There’s a quieter edge, too. "In the same world" implies scarcity of alternatives: no separate spheres, no pure homelands, no strategic escape hatch. It’s an argument against both fascist hierarchy and the softer temptation to retreat into national self-sufficiency. Roosevelt makes coexistence sound like a technical requirement, not a utopian dream, because he’s trying to make it politically survivable.