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Ellen Key
Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
Born: Dec 11, 1849
Died: Apr 25, 1926
Great Life Man War Woman Women
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all! Ellen Key
Work Woman Responsibility Feeling Increased Since Qualification How Movement Fields Standard Many Elevated Raised
Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch. Ellen Key
Great Woman Socialism Touch Firm Along Parts Movement Which Them Mighty Streams Drag Two
If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think. Ellen Key
Courage Culture Women Will Think Dare Thousand Thousand Years Exactly Shall Supplement Masculine Most Feminine Feminists Coming Years Which Then Create Really Act Measure Even Now
No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others. Ellen Key
Injustice Struggle Rights Others Meets Way Higher Open No-One He Him Himself Becomes Material Accessory Passively Up Done Patiently Endures Which Against Who Right
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action. Ellen Key
Good Courage Better Thought Made Action Everything Find Development Content Answer How Condition Question Ask Fortune Good Fortune Right Right Answer Present
Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism. Ellen Key
Life Faith Needs Man Become Once Those Recognised Prevailing Higher Development Thus Demand Idealism New Ideals New Forms Were Whenever Regard Which Forms Mankind Incentives Profess Who Expression Drag
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed. Ellen Key
Education Time Slow Consequences Other Progressive Faults Evolution Out Must Through Environment Always Conditions Blotted Same May Same Time Cannot Transformed Certainty Based Adaptation
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality! Ellen Key
Life Love Great Power Same Thing Adds Says Has-Been Would Would-Be Thousands Immorality Thousands Of Years Poetry Mysterious Prose Picturing Without Passions Been Years Tragic Same Anyone Plain Poor Then Thing
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. Ellen Key
Education Art Mistake Natural Control Nine Immediate Faults Consists Out Ten Allowed Environment Go Up Itself Times Child Children Which Interference Ignoring Vigilance Avoiding Whole Growing Growing Up Watching
Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be. Ellen Key
Eyes Burden Seen Young Every Everything Bear Proportion Individuality Longer Himself Existence Child Person Heavier Which Young Person Richer Should Now
The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. Ellen Key
Work Education Great Together Peace Young Meetings Great Extent Carried Temperance Classes Through Understand Tasks Movement Different Intercourse Social Show Popular Peace Movement Extent Bringing
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings. Ellen Key
Beautiful Will Remove Society Above More Perfect Mainly New Altered Conditions Existing Improved May Human Human Beings Formed Social Social Conditions Certain Beings Even
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
War Day Me Humanity Possibility Able Some Prevent Shall Making Human Really Belief
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars. Ellen Key
Politics War People Language Nationalism Way Statesmen Would Would-Be Kindred Direct Preventing Lead Support Between Leads New Most Sound Inevitably Effective Effective Way Different Whereas Race Languages Wars Coercion Conquest Present
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. Ellen Key
War People Cause Statesmanship Only Leading Leading Cause Understands How Interests Enlist
It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws. Ellen Key
War Strength Humanity Will Argument Power Difficulties Settle Dream Physical Able Someday Laws Physical Strength Steel Individuals Sharp Without Personal Jurisdiction Just Nations Then Enforce Created International Now
In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists. Ellen Key
War Overcome Must Spirit Tender Without Mothers Years Fists Begin Authority Childhood Children Order Might Creates Teach Help Foundation Right
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