Victor Hugo Quotes About Mankind
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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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