Victor Hugo Quotes
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Modern Library, 1992, p. 815.
Explaining why Indochina should not be allowed to fall to the Communists:. This is the origin of the expression "domino theory."
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.