More Quotes by Victor Hugo
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type.
My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.