Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
Victor HugoSo long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
Victor HugoDaring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Victor Hugo