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
“In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race — 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
“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.” — 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
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page… — 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
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.… — 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 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
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who,… — 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
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
