Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

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

Jane Addams

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

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

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

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Jane Addams

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

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Jane Addams

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams

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

Jane Addams

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

Jane Addams