Quote of Victor Hugo - Peace is the virtue of civilization....
Biography - Victor Hugo:
French writer, poet and dramatist.
Born: 1802 - Died: 1885
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1802 - Died: 1885
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Quotes about virtue:
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Quotes about war:
War is sweet to those who have no experience of it,
but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.
but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.
Quotes about peace:
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Quotes for: Civilization
By the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
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