All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo on time
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo on time
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo on time
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo on time
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Victor Hugo on time
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo on time
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Victor Hugo on time
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. Victor Hugo on truth
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo on war
A war between Europeans is a civil war. Victor Hugo on war
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo on war
Wisdom is a sacred communion. Victor Hugo on wisdom
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. Victor Hugo on women
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. Victor Hugo on women
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo on work
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo on mothersday
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. Victor Hugo on thanksgiving
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars—all the beauties of creation. Victor Hugo on absence
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. Victor Hugo on adversity
Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Hugo on adversity