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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

— Charles Péguy

La tyrannie est toujours mieux organisée que la liberté.

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The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)

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

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Le Mystère des saints Innocents [The Mystery of the Holy Innocents (1912)

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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