Victor Hugo Quotes

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.

Victor Hugo

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm a work in progress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Progress

• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

  

  Maimonides
  • Know
  • Progress
  • Teach

• Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Support

• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Good
  • War

• China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Work
  • Science
  • Energy

• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Indians

• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Progress
  • Virtue

• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Free
  • Science
  • Freedom

• In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • She
  • Light

• I mean, for Pete’s sake, you can’t get into the military, or used to not be able to get into the military, who knows now, if you had asthma, psoriasis, attention deficit disorder, but we’re going to bring in people with an extremely peculiar and rare mental illness...and have the taxpayers pay for it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Military

• Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Sales
  • Productivity

• If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

  

  Danny Bonaduce
  • Done
  • Famous
  • Perspective

• Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Revolutions
  • Brutalities