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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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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

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"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."

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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."

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"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
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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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"Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity."
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"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
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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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"Art, that great undogmatized church."
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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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"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
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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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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
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