Ellen Key Quotes

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

Marriage, Love, Legal

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

Life, Experience, Real

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.
Ellen Key

Men, War, Whole

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key

Art, Abstract, Horrifying

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.
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 the self that history has yet seen.
Ellen Key

Women, History, Greatest

Art, that great undogmatized church.
Ellen Key

Great, Art, Church

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Ellen Key

Education, Give, Liberal

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Ellen Key

Liberty, Duty, Fidelity

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

Future, Understand, Light

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key

Ideal, Limit, Paints

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Writer

Born: December 11, 1849

Died: 1926

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