Victor Hugo Quotes about War

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

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

Victor Hugo

Peace, War, Civilization

Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Victor Hugo

War, Shame, Glory

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

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.

Victor Hugo

War, Taken, Destiny

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Victor Hugo

War, Historical, Civil War

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

Victor Hugo

Brother, War, Mean

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

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

Victor Hugo

War, Unjust War, Civil War

"Les Miserables".

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

Victor Hugo

Brother, War, Mean

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

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

Victor Hugo

War, Humanity, Outrage

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

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.

Victor Hugo

War, Government, Europe