Charles Peguy Quotes

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• Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
• It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
• One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
• We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
• The references you do not verify are the good ones.
• 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…
• We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
• Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
• Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
• Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
• The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.
• I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
• 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…
• Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
• The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
• The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
• It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
• It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
• What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
• We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a…

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