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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

Topics: Bringing Carried Classes Different Education Extent Great Great Extent Intercourse Meetings Movement Peace Popular Show Social Tasks Temperance Through Together Understand Work Young

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Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Act Affecting Age Among Community Development Fear Gives Ills Inclined Individual Interests Joys Knowledge May More Our Powerful Receptive Responsibility Sense Social Social Responsibility Times Too Young Youth

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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Be Prepared Disappointments Experience Fail Must Prepared Young

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One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Advantages Best Dangers Form Most Movement Observe Strongest Time Well

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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

Topics: Above Altered Beautiful Beings Certain Conditions Even Existing Formed Human Human Beings Improved Mainly May More New Perfect Remove Social Society Will

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The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Day Fighters Go Greater Head Ideas Knocked More Number Numerous Our Out People Questions Red Red Tape Serious Silence Societies Solitary Strangled Talked Tape Than Those Who Whose

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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

Topics: Between Coercion Conquest Different Direct Effective Effective Way Inevitably Kindred Language Languages Lead Leads Most Nationalism New People Politics Present Preventing Race Sound Statesmen Support War Wars Way Whereas Would

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War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

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Topics: Cause How Interests Leading Only People Statesmanship Understands War

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The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

~Ellen Key

Topics: Before Blind Cause Change Civilization Compares Culture Fate Forces Havoc Helpless Human Lies Man Natural Nature Our Passions Power Stands Unavoidable Us War Well Which Within Wrought

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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

Topics: Able Argument Created Difficulties Dream Enforce Humanity Individuals International Just Laws Nations Now Personal Physical Physical Strength Power Settle Sharp Someday Steel Strength Then War Will Without

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1849

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