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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.
Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
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."
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.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
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.
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.
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.
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.
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.
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.
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.
A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.
The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
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.
The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.