Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
