Victor Hugo Quotes and Quotation

• "On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées"
  • Language: French
  • Literal Translation: "One resists the invasion of armies, but not the invasion of ideas."
  • Source: Histoire d'un Crime (History of a Crime) (written 1852, published 1877)
  • Alternative Translations and Variations:
    • "One cannot resist an idea whose time has come."
    • "No one can resist an idea whose time has come"
    • "Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come"
    • "Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come."
    • "No army can stop an idea whose time has come."

Attributed:

• "There shall be no slavery of the mind."

Probably misattributed: