Charles Peguy Quotes

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.