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, Jane Addams More Quotes by Jane Addams More Quotes From 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 stay-strong giving-up peace Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different. Jane Addams stronger different America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. Jane Addams future education children 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 faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them? Jane Addams possibility failing race The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. Jane Addams honesty integrity character 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. Jane Addams men believe history Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. Jane Addams hull-house code-of-ethics expression 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 process. Jane Addams war peace believe The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. Jane Addams equality inspiring peace The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas. Jane Addams wisdom men ideas Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Jane Addams army attitude men 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. Jane Addams government self fear Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people. Jane Addams empathy imagination people As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be. Jane Addams democracy community humble With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world! Jane Addams stupid mother children Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. Jane Addams moral charity doe We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself. Jane Addams conviction results forget Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. Jane Addams women feet memorable Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences. Jane Addams soon-enough attitude children It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. Jane Addams happy-people people way
