WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/hugo-victor/78840/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Victor Hugo</b></a></p><blockquote>Certainly the influence of the past is very strong at the present time; it is reviving, and this rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. It is on the march, and it seems to be winning — a dead thing yet a conqueror! It comes with its army of superstitions, its sword, which is despotism, its banner, which is ignorance, and in recent years it has won ten battles. It advances, laughs, and threatens; it is at our door.<br> <br><i>[Le passé, il est vrai, est très fort à l’heure où nous sommes. Il reprend. Ce rajeunissement d’un cadavre est surprenant. Le voici qui marche et qui vient. Il semble vainqueur ; ce mort est un conquérant. Il arrive avec sa légion, les superstitions, avec son épée, le despotisme, avec son drapeau, l’ignorance ; depuis quelque temps il a gagné dix batailles. Il avance, il menace, il rit, il est à nos portes.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802-1885) French writer<br><i>Les Misérables</i>, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 7 “Argot,” ch. 4 (4.7.4) (1862) [tr. Denny (1976)]</p> <p>More info about (and translations of) this quote: <a href="https://wist.info/hugo-victor/78840/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/hugo-victor/78840/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=victorhugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victorhugo</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lesmiserables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiserables</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lesmiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiz</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=despotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>despotism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oppression</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=past" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>past</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reaction</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=regress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regress</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=superstition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superstition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=threat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threat</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a></p>