Victor Hugo Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

  Victor Hugo

  Spiritual, Jobs, Real

• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Spring, Heart, Civilization

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

• If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

  Victor Hugo

  Wish, Progress, Revolution

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

• Progress is the stride of God.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Progress, Stride

• I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Air, Water

• Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Heart, Ideas

• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Giving, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Progress, Brutality

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

• Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

  Victor Hugo

  Progress, Brutality, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.58, My Ebook Publishing House

• Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

  Victor Hugo

  Winning, Voice, Progress

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

• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

  Victor Hugo

  Progress, Splendid, Daring

• Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

  Victor Hugo

  Progress, Stage, Accomplished

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1294, BookCaps Study Guides

• Progress is the life-style of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Style, Progress

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