Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
More Quotes from Victor Hugo:
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins, which of the two has the grander view.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo
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