Quote

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Victor Hugo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
Wisdom
Ideas
Come
Mind
Battlefields
Markets
Commerce
Opening
Minds

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
Victor Hugo
Image
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
Victor Hugo
Image
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
Victor Hugo
Image
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Victor Hugo
Image
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
Victor Hugo
Image
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Victor Hugo
Image
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
Image
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
Victor Hugo
Image
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor Hugo
Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
Image
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Image
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Victor Hugo
Image
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
Image
Emotion is always new.
Victor Hugo
Image
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
Victor Hugo
Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Victor Hugo
Image
God was bored by him.
Victor Hugo