The very forces that liberty ...

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
 Ellen Key

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
 Ellen Key
The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.
 Ellen Key
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
 Ellen Key
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
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
 Ellen Key