The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. Ellen Key More Quotes by Ellen Key More Quotes From Ellen Key The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature? Ellen Key man nature change war When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured. Ellen Key value woman power life Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. Ellen Key woman great mother civilization Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. Ellen Key altruism women liberty struggle
