Alas, God gives light to men, and the law sells it.
Victor Hugo
January 22nd, 2012
July 18th, 2011
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
June 23rd, 2011
Religion is nothing but the shadow cast by the universe on human intelligence.
Victor Hugo - French novelist. Professed “freethinker.” Violently anticlerical. (The feeling was mutual: Hugo counted 740 attacks on Les Miserables in the Catholic press.) His will stipulated that he be buried without crucifix or priest. (via helvetebrann)
