We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Quote by Victor Hugo

Topics: Women Quotes

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the...

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the...

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights...

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights...

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,...

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,...

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature...

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature...

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes...

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes...

Conscience is God present in man.

Conscience is God present in man.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Progress is the stride of God.

Progress is the stride of God.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only...

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only...

God speaks in the language you know best...not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

God speaks in the language you know best...not through your ears, but through your circumstances.