Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.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 poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.Victor Hugo
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.Ernest Hemingway
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.Ernest Hemingway
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.Ernest Hemingway
