“Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.”

“The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.”

“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

“Examine the road over which the fault has passed.- Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel”

“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.”

“This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.”

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”