"Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." ― Victor Hugo Topic(s): Good Tags: nothing, world More From Victor Hugo "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past." "We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution." "There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson." More In Good "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."― H. L. Mencken "I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency."― Ted Nugent "No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."― W. H. Auden