Victor Hugo Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

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  Spring, Heart, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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  World, Alphabet, Language

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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  Wisdom, Circles, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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  Human Nature, Mankind, Humans

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.782, Wordsworth Editions

• Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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  Philosophy, Energy, Should

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

• For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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  Kings, Wind, Desert

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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