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.

About Ellen Key

Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (Swedish: [ˈkej]; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach...

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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

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

—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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History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

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.