Ellen Key Quotes

Formerly, A Nation That Broke The Peace, Did Not Trouble To Try And Prove To The World That It Was Done Solely From Higher Motives. ... Now War Has A Bad Conscience. Now Every Nation Assures Us That It Is Bleeding For A Human Cause, The Fate Of Which Hangs In The Balance Of Its Victory ... No Nation Dares To Admit The Guilt Of Blood Before The World.

Is Human Love The Growth Of The Human Will ?

The Higher The Development Of Women, The More They Suffer From The 'patriotic' Mandate To Bear Many Children To Replace The Nation's Losses. For They Know That, From The Point Of View Of Their Personal Development As Well As That Of The Race, Fewer But Better Children Are To Be Preferred.

Not Observation Of A Duty But Liberty Itself Is The Pledge That Assures Fidelity.

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, But It Does Not Hinder The Infection In The Sewer From Spreading.

Conventionality Is The Tacit Agreement To Set Appearances Before Reality, Form Before Content.

All Philanthropy — No Age Has Seen More Of It Than Our Own — Is Only A Savoury Fumigation Burning At The Mouth Of A Sewer.

The Home Was A Closed Sphere Touched Only At Its Edge By The World's Evolution.

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.

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 When There Will No Longer Be One Standard Of Morality For Poetry And Another For Life. To Anyone Tender Of Conscience, The Ties Formed By A Free Connection Are Stronger Than The Legal Ones.

The Very Forces That Liberty Has Set Free Work Against The Dangerous Consequences Of Liberty.

The Socially Pernicious, Racially Wasteful, And Soul-withering Consequences Of The Working Of Mothers Outside The Home Must Cease. And This Can Only Come To Pass, Either Through The Programme Of Institutional Upbringing, Or Through The Intimate Renaissance Of The Home.