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Victor Hugo7 quotes
An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted. — Victor Hugo · 1878Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo · 1864Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America? — Victor Hugo · 1862Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. — Victor Hugo · 1862One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. — Victor Hugo · 1862All 7 quotes →Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2 quotes
God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1846Property is theft. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1840