"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but tha...
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
More Victor Hugo quotes
"Those who do not weep, do not see.
"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
"So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilizati...
"where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
"He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having...
"When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
"Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books t...
"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...
"No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the his...
"As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
"The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in...