Peace Quotes by Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually…

— Ellen Key

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to…

— Ellen Key

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to…

— Ellen Key

Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

— Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

— Ellen Key

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined…

— Ellen Key

The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion…

— Ellen Key

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

— Ellen Key

Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher…

— Ellen Key

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and…

— Ellen Key

One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you…

— Ellen Key

The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat…

— Ellen Key

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

— Ellen Key

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power…

— Ellen Key

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

— Ellen Key