Quote by Victor Hugo
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just a

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo

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Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979

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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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The War on Drugs employs millions – politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military – that probably couldnt find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. – L. Neil Smith

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I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the shots, Im not going to rush to send somebody elses kids into a war. – George H. W. Bush

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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. – Patricia Hewitt

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. – Theodor Adorno

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My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I dont know moderation. – Sean Astin

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diet

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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