Hugo, Victor (Victor Hugo)

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo

From time to time the exceptional is necessary. For events as well as for men, the stock company is not enough; geniuses are needed among men, and revolutions among events. Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors.
-- Victor Hugo

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
-- Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
-- Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-- Victor Hugo