Quotes from Jules Verne

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?