“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
“To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".” — 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
“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.” — victor hugo Copy Share Image
“Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.” — 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
“Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — 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
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — 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
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
