The king, being the exception, needs, to defend himself, the soldier, who in his turn needs the murder to live. It is necessary to kings of the armies, it is necessary to the armies the war. Otherwise, their reason for being faints. Strange thing(matter), the man grants to kill the man, without knowing why. The art of the despots, it is to divide into halves the people in army. Opprim half
All their forms, civil lists, paid lazinesses, wage-earning clergies, maintained judiciaries, aristocratic sinecures, free concessions of the public buildings, armed(equipped) permanent; make this deletion, and you endow Europe of ten billions a year. Here is with a stroke of the pen the problem of the misery simplified.
This simplification, thrones do not want it. From there the forests of bayonets.
Kings get on a single point: immortalize the war. We believe that they quarrel; in no way, they entr' like(love). It is necessary, I repeat him(it), that the soldier has his reason for being. To immortalize the army, it is to immortalize the tyranny; excellent logic, or, and wild.
. Kings exhaust their patient, people, by the paid(poured) blood. There is a wild brotherhood of two-edged swords, where from results the subjection of the men(people).
Thus, let us go to the purpose, which I called somewhere the reduction of the soldier in the citizen. When this resumption of ownership will have taken place, when the people will have no more outside him the warrior, . This enemy brother, people will meet one himself, integer, liking(loving), and the civilization will name Harmony, and will have in her, to create, on one side the wealth and of the other one the light, this force, the Work, and this soul, the Peace.
Victor HUGO, Speech at the Congress of the Peace, Lausanne, September, 1869.