There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
- Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
- Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
- Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
- He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
- People do not lack strength they lack will.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
Best Quotes
- True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
- The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
- Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.