Quotes about Humanity
Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil.
— Victor Hugo
The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
— Victor Hugo
Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man
— Victor Hugo
For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.
— Victor Hugo
What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.
— Victor Hugo
Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
— Victor Hugo
War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.
— Victor Hugo
No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.
— Victor Hugo
His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings
— Victor Hugo
God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent
— Victor Hugo
The convict was transfigured into Christ.
— Victor Hugo
Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.
— Victor Hugo