Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof: Quotes about people

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof was Polish ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof: 8 quotes0 likes

“Break, break the walls between the peoples.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Vivo de Zamenhof http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26359 (The life of Zamenhof), Biography by w:Edmond Privat, published in 1920

“We should be well aware of the full importance of this day, because today, within the welcoming walls of Boulogne-sur-Mer, there meet not Frenchmen with Englishmen, not Russians with Poles, but people with people.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Address to the First World Congress of Esperanto, Bologne-sur-Mer, France. 5 August 1905.

“We are not so naive as some think of us; we do not believe that a neutral base will turn men into angels; we know quite well that the people who are evil will still be evil; but we believe that communication and relationships based on a neutral base will at least do away with the great mass of brutality and crimes which are caused not by ill will, but simply by mutual misunderstandings and impositions.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Address http://reto.cn/biblioteko/movado/zamenhof/paroladoj/uk2.htm to the Second World Congress of Esperanto, Geneve, Switzerland. 27 August 1906.