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
The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be… — 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
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that… — 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
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of… — 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
