Quotes by Victor Hugo

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Conscience is God present in man.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.