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

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

- Ellen Key

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

- 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.

- Ellen Key

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of t…

- 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…

- 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.

- Ellen Key