Victor Hugo Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, War, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

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  War, Taken, Destiny

• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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  Brother, War, Mean

• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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  War, Historical, Civil War

• War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

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  War, Unjust War, Civil War

  "Les Miserables".

• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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  War, Shame, Glory

• I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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  Wisdom, War, Half

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

• That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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  War, Humanity, Outrage

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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  Brother, War, Mean

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• 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.

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  Country, War, Men

• The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
  [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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  War, Eagles

• It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

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  War, Government, Europe

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