It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Weitere Zitate von Victor Hugo
Zum Autor"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
"The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure."
"His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body."
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."
"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)."
"They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"