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.
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty. - Ellen Key
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
- Ellen Key
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individua… - Ellen Key
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individua…
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feel… - Ellen Key
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feel…
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. - Ellen Key
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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 hav… - Ellen Key
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 hav…
All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. - Ellen Key
All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality. - Ellen Key
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. - Ellen Key
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time. - Ellen Key
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
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