Victor Hugo on future
“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
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Toleration is the best religion.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If you’re in business, you need to understand the environment. You need to have a vision of the future, and you need to know the past.
Carlos Slim HeluCarlos Slim Helu Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, ‘Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.’
Dua LipaDua Lipa If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Roy T. BennettRoy T. Bennett Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Roy T. BennettRoy T. Bennett If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
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