"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing."
― Victor Hugo
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More From Victor Hugo
- "Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
- "Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
- "To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."
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- "Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."― Federico Fellini
- "I’m happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that’s where I want to be."― Joel Silver
- "Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police."― Tony Blair