Victor Hugo Quotes

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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 peace. God is awake.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.

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

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The sublimest song to be heard on earth is the lisping of the human soul on the lips of children.

No one keeps a secret so well as a child.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.