There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come - Victor Hugo

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

If they had had a different neighbour, one less self-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single fateful word. They are les miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.