All Ellen Key Quotes
- The 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… Advances
- At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Allowed
- The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. All
- Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. Assures
- All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by,… Air
- Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer… Anyone
- 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… Affirmation
- Is human love the growth of the human will ? Growth
- Art, that great undogmatized church. Art
- The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it… Abandonment
- Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. Dignity
- All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. All
- For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that… Abhors
- 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… Any
- A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming… Anyone
- Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Even Without
- When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. Art
- The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Abstract
- 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… Acts
- The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity… Able