| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 29271 |
| QUOTATION: | Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 3 (1862). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hugo Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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