Charles Peguy Quotes

"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Freedom, Tyranny)

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Friendship, Love, Genius)

"Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Nothing, Old, Today)

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Truth)

"Freedom is a system based on courage."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Courage, Freedom)

"Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Father, Son)

"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."
- Charles Peguy
(Related: Tears, Word, Writer)

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