Ellen Key Quotes

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Support
  • Beauty

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • American
  • Immigrant

• I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Learn

• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • World
  • Long
  • Rome

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• For my life, I need to make my own choices.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Choices
  • My Life

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Running
  • City

• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Knowledge

• It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Fun
  • Exception

• By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  

  Ellen Key
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