Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
Jane Addams
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Social Critic
Social Reformer
Laura Jane Addams
Dzheyn Edems
Impossible
Masses
Political
Establish
Nothing
Achieved
Country
Save
Life
Democratic
People
Mass
Higher
Permanently
Democracy
Crave
More quotes by Jane Addams
Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
Jane Addams
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
Jane Addams
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
Jane Addams
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
Jane Addams
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
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
Jane Addams
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
Jane Addams
In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah, it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.
Jane Addams
A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
Jane Addams
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
Jane Addams
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.
Jane Addams
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
Jane Addams
Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.
Jane Addams
The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.
Jane Addams
Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
Jane Addams
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
Jane Addams
