253 ordspråk av Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo föddes den 26 februar 1802 och dog den 22 maj 1885 - fransk författare.
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Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it

forced to withdraw support from the president in order to ensure public safety.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Toleration is the best religion.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

The voices of those children, that is the voice of the immense future.

For words are the Word, and the Word is God.

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.

The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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