5 Jane Addams Quotes on Society

Jane Addams quotes on society

6. We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.

7. ... 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.

9. 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!

14. Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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