Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
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All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.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
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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 individually they would revolt with their whole being.
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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.
Ellen Key
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
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