Victor Hugo Quotes

The death penalty is a peculiar sign of barbarism.

The first equality is equity.

Curious thing! The first symptom of true love in a young man is shyness, in a young woman it is boldness.

The love is a burning forgetfulness of everything.

Man is an infinitely small copy of God. This is enough glory for man. Despite my insignificance, I acknowledge that God is within me.

The greater a man's knowledge, the greater his faith must be; and the closer he gets to God, the clearer his vision of God becomes.

Art, in itself, does not move forward or backward.

God reveals Himself to us first through the life of the universe, second through human thought. The first manifestation is called nature, the second art.

The acceptance of oppression by the oppressed ends up being complicity; cowardice is consent; there is shameful solidarity and participation between the government that does wrong and the people who allow it to do so.

A revolution is the larva of a civilization.

There is only one power: conscience in the service of justice; there is only one glory: genius, in the service of truth.

Beauty is the forehead, love is the crown.