Revolution Quotes by Victor Hugo

“This very slight change had worked a revolution.”

— Victor Hugo

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

— Victor Hugo

“On ne renverse pas le trône pour laisser l’échafaud debout.”

— Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

— Victor Hugo

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

— Victor Hugo

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

— Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

— Victor Hugo

“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.”

— victor hugo

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place…

— Victor Hugo

“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.”

— Víctor Hugo

“Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.”

— Victor Hugo

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it…

— Victor Hugo

“Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.”

— Victor Hugo

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea…

— Victor Hugo

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

— Victor Hugo

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

— Victor Hugo

“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions…

— Victor Hugo

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been…

— Victor Hugo

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the…

— Victor Hugo

“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of…

— Victor Hugo

“Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in…

— Victor Hugo

“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,…

— Victor Hugo

“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the…

— Victor Hugo

“Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of…

— Victor Hugo

“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put…

— Victor Hugo

“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very…

— Victor Hugo

“Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive…

— Victor Hugo

“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

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said…

— Victor Hugo

“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding…

— Victor Hugo

“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between…

— Victor Hugo

“The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated…

— Victor Hugo

“Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras,…

— Victor Hugo

“While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the…

— Victor Hugo

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

— Victor Hugo

“There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer…

— Victor Hugo

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled,…

— Victor Hugo

“Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is…

— Victor Hugo