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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. – 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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Ellen Key

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For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war. – Barbara Boxer

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