Victor Hugo Quotes About Hatred

Quotes about: Hatred

• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

• The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Law, Hatred

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.82, Modern Library

• The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Intelligent, Luxury

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.42, Modern Library

• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Broken, Hatred, Suffering

• The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, House, Hatred

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