Ellen Key - War Quotes

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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

Everything, everything in war is barbaric.... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Ellen Key

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