Hugo, Victor

"It is not enough to be wicked to prosper."

"One can dream of something more terrible than a hell where one suffers; it's a hell where one would get bored."

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

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

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

"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."

"Liberation is not deliverance."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself."

"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise." - Ninetythree, 1874