Social contract Quotes by Charles Peguy

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

— Charles Peguy

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

— Charles Peguy

Freedom is a system based on courage.

— Charles Peguy

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

— Charles Peguy

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

— Charles Peguy

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

— Charles Peguy

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

— Charles Peguy

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

— Charles Peguy

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

— Charles Peguy

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity,…

— Charles Peguy

When you love someone you love him as he is.

— Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

— Charles Peguy