Charles Peguy's Quotes

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

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

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

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.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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

Freedom is a system based on courage.

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