112 Quotes by Jane Addams

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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 miller’s life.

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.