When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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