A revolution in the mind

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo

An Intellectual Life of Labor

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

Victor Hugo

Ora et Labora

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. --Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Turning

"Of what does a revolt consist? Of everything and nothing, a spring slowly released, a fire suddenly breaking out, force operating at random, a passing breeze. The breeze stirs the heads that think and minds that dream, spirits that suffer, passions that smolder, wrongs crying out to be righted, and carries them away." Victor Hugo