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Quotes About Change

ViaÈ›a este pierderea neîntrerupt? a tot ce iubim.
~ Victor Hugo
Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. During this journey in 1825
~ Victor Hugo
This very slight change had worked a revolution.
~ Victor Hugo
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~ Victor Hugo
Revolution cannot really be conquered... If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Tomorrow performs its work irresistibly, and it does it from today.
~ Victor Hugo
the winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness;
~ Victor Hugo
In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.
~ Victor Hugo
When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.
~ Victor Hugo
In the final days of Empire, When the people were awakening, It was your smile red carnation which told us that all was being reborn.
~ Victor Hugo
long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved;
~ Victor Hugo
For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.
~ Victor Hugo
To be nothing where he had been everything was an unendurable decline.
~ Victor Hugo
The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me
~ Victor Hugo
If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It
~ Victor Hugo
As long as he has for refrain nothing but la Carmagnole, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the Marseillaise, and he will free the world.
~ Victor Hugo
Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.
~ Victor Hugo
Los grandes acontecimientos tienen consecuencias incalculables
~ Victor Hugo
To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.
~ Victor Hugo
It was the beginning of the end.
~ Victor Hugo
How pretty it is here! It was an awful hovel, but she felt free.
~ Victor Hugo
He resolved to leave the convent.
~ Victor Hugo
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.
~ Victor Hugo
With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.
~ Victor Hugo
To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.
~ Victor Hugo