Quotes by Charles Peguy

• Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
• Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
• Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
• He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
• Freedom is a system based on courage.
• Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
• 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.
• We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.