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Victor Hugo war französischer Poet und Autor. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas", the wording of this famous statement actually more closely resembles a passage from the relatively obscure Les Francs-Tireurs (1861) by Gustave Aimard, p. 68 https://books.google.com/books/about/Les_francs_tireurs.html?id=mKI4AQAAIAAJ:
Il y a quelque chose de plus puissant que la force brutale des baïonnettes: c'est l'idée dont le temps est venu et l'heure est sonnée.
There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck.
Translated into English as The Freebooters : A Story of the Texan War (1861) https://archive.org/details/freebootersstory00aima, p. 57, Ward & Lock edition
Misattributed
Variante: More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
“Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.”
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Die Elenden
Quelle: Les Misérables
“He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality”
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Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame
Quelle: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”
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Die Elenden
Les feuilles d'automne (1831)
Variante: To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Quelle: Les Misérables
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
"Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke
Quelle: Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion
“There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
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Die Elenden
Quelle: Les Misérables
“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”
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Die Elenden
Quelle: Les Misérables