Love is moral even without legal marriage, but mar... -Ellen Key

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key , Writer
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Ellen Key was a Swedish feminist and writer known for her advocacy of women's rights and progressive social ideas. Her writings addressed various issues, including education, gender roles, and sexual freedom, influencing the women's movement in Sweden and beyond.

Ellen Key Quotes to Explore

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and h...
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of m...
While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might...
The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth centur...
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 especi...
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love....
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination....
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...
Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose he...
Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for t...

Legal Quotes to Explore

When we were younger, but still of legal drinking age, it would be things like Goldschlager or peppermint schnapps. Things like that are not something...
I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and ha...
Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse....
Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father...
I never wanted to launch legal action, but Cricket Australia simply left me no option. James Sutherland himself said that, to an extent, I had been ma...
Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and scope of government. I wi...
Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled....
Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their...
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious....
I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year....