Victor Hugo Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

• Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Hero, Men

  Victor Hugo (1914). “The novels”

• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

  Victor Hugo

  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Names, Giving

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

• If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

  Victor Hugo

  Poverty, Chance, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

• So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Ignorance, Long

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.3, Victor Hugo

• The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

  Victor Hugo

  Charity, Poverty, Firsts

  "Les Misérables: Fantine".

• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

  Victor Hugo

  Self, Atheism, Advancement

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

• Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Thinking, Giving

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