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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Jane Addams

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Jane Addams

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

Jane Addams