Victor Hugo Quotes
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.