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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbari

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

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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

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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

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