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.
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not f… - Jane Addams
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not f…
- Jane Addams
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. - Jane Addams
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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… - Jane Addams
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…
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. - Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural… - Jane Addams
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural…
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! - Jane Addams
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. - Jane Addams
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. - Jane Addams
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. - Jane Addams
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion