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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. – Ellen Key
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 have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. – Ellen Key