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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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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
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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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"Art, that great undogmatized church."
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