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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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"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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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

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"No man may make another free."

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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

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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."
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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
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"Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity."
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"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
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"Art, that great undogmatized church."
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"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
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"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
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"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
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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."
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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."
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