Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences.… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
