Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.Victor Hugo
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.Victor Hugo
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.Victor Hugo
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?Victor Hugo
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.Victor Hugo
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.Victor Hugo
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.Ernest Hemingway
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.Ernest Hemingway