112 Quotes by Jane Addams

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.