Victor Hugo Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Strange, Speak

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

• Conscience is God present in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Conscience

• I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

  Victor Hugo

  Mistake, Eye, Direct Action

• There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Character, Sea, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.892, BookCaps Study Guides

• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

• Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Weight, Conscience

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5899, Delphi Classics

• That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Bishops, Faces

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

• The sewer is the conscience of the city.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Water, Sewers

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.857, Wordsworth Editions

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