Victor Hugo Quotes

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Stand not against the stream.

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

Who am I to blow against the wind?

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.