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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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