The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the...

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the...

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life;...

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life;...

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives...

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it...

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives...

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it...

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it...

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught...

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught...

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however...

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however...

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the...

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty...

We make war that we may live in peace.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it......

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it......

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall...

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall...

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the...

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the...

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of...

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of...