I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.” — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
