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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Victor Hugo
Progress, Stage, Accomplished
Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1294, BookCaps Study Guides

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Victor Hugo
Progress, Brutality, Revolution
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.58, My Ebook Publishing House

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Victor Hugo
Progress, Splendid, Daring

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Victor Hugo
Winning, Voice, Progress
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo
Race, Progress, Brutality
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Victor Hugo
Wish, Progress, Revolution
Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

Progress is the stride of God.

Victor Hugo
God, Progress, Stride

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Victor Hugo
Past, Giving, Progress
Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

Progress is the life-style of man.

Victor Hugo
Men, Style, Progress

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