Charles Peguy
Charles Peguy
Charles Pierre Péguywas a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 January 1873
CountryFrance
Charles Peguy quotes about
courage
Freedom is a system based on courage.
writing tears pockets
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.
courage progressive cowardice
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
libertarian-party liberty tyranny
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.