“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.” — 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
“Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.” — 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
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.” — Víctor Hugo Copy Share Image
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated… — 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
“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding… — 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
“Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer… — 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
