Victor Hugo Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

• The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Wind, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.726, Wordsworth Editions

• Revolution is the larva of civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Civilization, Revolution

• 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

• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Victor Hugo (2004). “Notre-Dame de Paris”, p.144, Penguin UK

• Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

  Victor Hugo

  Spring, Real, Return

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

• 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

• 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

• Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

  Victor Hugo

  Revolution, Chance, Born

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

• I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

  Victor Hugo

  Party, Europe, Civilization

  "Océan. Tas de pierres". Book by Victor Hugo, 1942.

• To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Giving, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

• The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall, People, Stones

• Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Events, Gutenberg

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