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

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 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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

- Jane Addams

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

- Jane Addams

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

- 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.

- Jane Addams

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

- Jane Addams