Ellen Key Quotes

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

Ellen Key

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: December 11, 1849 - April 25, 1926

Topics

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I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

Jessie Buckley

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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

John James Audubon

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I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.

Ann Dowd

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The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Fashion is not art. Never.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

Amy Klobuchar

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They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.

Siobhan Fahey

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I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

Minnie Driver

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Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?'

Lisa Jewell

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The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Arthur Henderson

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My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

Alice Hastings Bradley

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Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

Willie Smits

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