Ellen Key quotes

Ellen Key was a Swedish writer, philosopher, and feminist known for her influential works on education and women's rights. Her writings emphasized the importance of individuality, creativity, and social reform. She inspired generations with her progressive ideas about childhood, education, and the role of women in society. Here are 12 of her quotes:

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

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

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

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Ellen Key

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Ellen Key

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Ellen Key