FastSaying

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

Ellen Key

Related Quotes

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
— Fredrik Bajer
ApplicableCannotConferences
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
CivilizationContributionsCreated
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
— Thomas Sowell
EducationExtentGreat
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
— Ludwig Quidde
DependentDisarmamentExtent
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
— Gerry Mulligan
AnyExtentFrench