When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – 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
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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. – Ellen Key
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair