"All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singul...
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
More Victor Hugo quotes
"In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the day when all will be peace, harmony...
"Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior ...
"He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been throug...
"Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.
"Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men ...
"In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.
"Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.
"Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli str...
"Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who s...
"I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."...
"Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
"What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrif...
"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.
"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear ...