Ellen Key - Nation Quotes

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The higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

Ellen Key

The mother is the precious possession of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well being when it protects the functions of the mother.

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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 Key