Quotes by Ellen Key
“At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experiences of life; the thorns should not be plucked from his roses.”— Ellen Key
“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is useless.”— Ellen Key
“The nineteenth century has been the century of the woman's emancipation, the twentieth will be that of the child's.”— Ellen Key
“All education and all attempts to reform mankind are pointless without the appropriate economic basis.”— Ellen Key
“The belief in the sanctity of private property has been the main source of the world's unhappiness.”— Ellen Key
“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.”— Ellen Key