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PRETTIEST TRIO EVER AWARD

citoyen-rouge

Les Mis quotes for Protest Signs

Not being heard is no reason for silence

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The brutalities of progress are called revolution

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

johnatron9000

Boyy if you don’t stop yearning and get to the barricades rn….

cometomecosette

In watching Les Mis bootlegs from the '90s, I've noticed a recurring difference in how one line is delivered in the replica productions vs. foreign non-replica productions.

The line in question is Combeferre's "Though we may not all survive here, there are things that never die," after Javert's capture, which was cut when the show was shortened by 14 minutes in 2001.

In the non-replica productions, Combeferre tends to deliver that line to Javert, as a rebuttal to Javert's "Death to each and every traitor! I renounce your people's court!" He seems to be saying "Yes, we may die, but our values are righteous and will live on, which is more than you can say for yourself, spy!"

But in the replica productions, he delivers the line to his friends as he lowers the guns they've aimed at Javert, to remind them of their values and dissuade them from shooting Javert on the spot like assassins. This is especially true in the 10th anniversary's more chaotic re-staging of the scene, where Courfeyrac incites a near-mutiny to shoot Javert until Combeferre intervenes.

Both of those deliveries are valid and I have no idea which one the authors originally intended. But Trevor Nunn interpreted it one way, while the foreign non-replica directors chose the other.