Ellen Key quotes

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. (Ellen Key)
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. View quote
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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. View quote
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. View quote
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. View quote
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. View quote
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. View quote
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. View quote
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Art, that great undogmatized church. View quote
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. View quote
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. (Ellen Key)
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. View quote
Ellen Key