Ellen KeyNot observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ✨ Ellen Key (1911). The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays362Truth
Ellen KeyThe 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 s… ▶375Humanity
Ellen KeyThe genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to it… ▶366LifeTime
Ellen KeyArt, that great undogmatized church.302Time
Ellen KeyEverything, 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 the… ▶368Thought
Ellen KeyThe educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.348HopeTime
Ellen KeyThe belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.339Humanity
Ellen KeyAt every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ✨ The Century of the Child Ch. 3264Life
Ellen KeyAll 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 infe… ▶204Reading
Ellen KeyThe more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.194Time
Ellen KeyLove is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. ✨ Ellen Key (1911). The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays2410Love
Ellen KeyWhen one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. ✨ Ellen Key (1911). The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays207SadnessThought
Ellen KeyAnyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existin… ▶135Death
Ellen KeyThe mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother. ✨ Ellen Key… ▶158Humanity
Ellen KeyIs human love the growth of the human will ?138HumanityLove
