It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. Charles Peguy More Quotes by Charles Peguy More Quotes From Charles Peguy Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy libertarian-partylibertyteaching We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive. Charles Peguy cowardiceprogressivecourage 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 pocketstearswriting Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint. Charles Peguy has-beenssainttragedy He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. Charles Peguy honestytruthliars 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 single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body. Charles Peguy lossjusticepeople We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. Charles Peguy claritydifficultinspirational The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope. Charles Peguy Freedom is a system based on courage. Charles Peguy couragehistory The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint. Charles Peguy saintmatterheart It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation. Charles Peguy salvationhappinessmen When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life. Charles Peguy dyingdoemen Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. Charles Peguy mysticismends What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit. Charles Peguy salvationhabitsin Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. Charles Peguy newspapersmorningtoday 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 Charles Peguy errorshonestymen Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. Charles Peguy fatherhandsson It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice. Charles Peguy justicewarpeace Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. Charles Peguy reallove-isfriendship I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none. Charles Peguy self-respectfaultssaint
