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War Quotes by Victor Hugo
- 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…
- 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…
- You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
- I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
- A war between Europeans is a civil war.
- Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
- Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
- There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
- That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
- Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
- 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…
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