Victor Hugo Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

  Victor Hugo

  Government, People, Evil

• She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Ignorance, Evil

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.66

• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Men, Evil

• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

• Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Destiny, Men

• Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

  Victor Hugo

  Evil, Soul, Elements

• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  Victor Hugo

  Omnipotence, Evil, Effort

  "Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 1". Book by Iam A. Freeman, p. 520, March 26, 2014.

• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

• At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

  Victor Hugo

  Evil, Depth, Poor

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.72

• We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Fire, Iron

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

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