Charles Péguy

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

“It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.”

“The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint.”

“Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.”

“The sleep of the just is as sacred as their work.”

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

“The world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years.”

“There is only one adventurer in the world... the father of a family.”

“Hope is a little girl who gets up every morning.”

“The humble are humble and the proud are proud.”

“The true socialists are the peasants.”

“Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.”

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

“It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have too many.”

“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.”