Peace Quotes by Victor Hugo

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

— Victor Hugo

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

— Victor Hugo

“Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“Peace is happiness digesting”

— Victor Hugo

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

— Victor Hugo

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

— Victor Hugo

“An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.”

— Victor Hugo

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

— Victor Hugo

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a”

— Victor Hugo

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving…

— Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily…

— Victor Hugo

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it…

— Victor Hugo

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task,…

— Victor Hugo

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above…

— Victor Hugo

“He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. He alone who denounces the success…

— Victor Hugo

My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes…

— Victor Hugo

“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the…

— Victor Hugo

“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the…

— Victor Hugo

“War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising…

— Victor Hugo

“What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat…

— Victor Hugo

Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more…

— Victor Hugo

The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in…

— Victor Hugo

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form…

— Victor Hugo

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved…

— Victor Hugo

“The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every…

— Victor Hugo

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies,…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind”

— Victor Hugo

“All war is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it.”

— Victor Hugo

“He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.”

— Victor Hugo

“Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of…

— Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily…

— Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily…

— Victor Hugo