"That is the explanation of war, an..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.”

“There are things stronger than the strongest man.”

“Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.”

“The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.”

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”

“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”

“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”

“We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?”