Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.
Ellen KeyAt every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen KeyThe 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 KeyA great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
Ellen Key