I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they… — 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
