Victor Hugo Quotes About Revolution

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  • The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

    Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.726, Wordsworth Editions
  • Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

    Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.58, My Ebook Publishing House
  • 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.

    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

    Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC
  • The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

  • Revolution is the larva of civilization.

  • If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

    Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult
  • Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

    Victor Hugo (2004). “Notre-Dame de Paris”, p.144, Penguin UK
  • Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

  • I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

    "Océan. Tas de pierres". Book by Victor Hugo, 1942.
  • When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  • 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.

    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

    Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148
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