Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

La tyrannie est toujours mieux organisée que la liberté.

Charles Peguy

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Topic

Tyranny Threats to freedom

Author

Charles Peguy

Source

Basic Verities

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Peguy, Charles. Basic Verities: Prose and Poetry, translated by Ann and Julian Green. Pantheon Books, 1943.

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Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

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Warfare is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity
Medium
Essay
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

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Tyranny Overton window Freedom of thought

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Source
The Closing of the American Mind
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1987 1980s 20th century
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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987, pt. 3.

Another quote from 1943

Show me a good loser and I will show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

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Sportsmanship Losers
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Knute Rockne
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Rockne, Knute. Quoted in Washington Post. 15 Aug. 1943.

Another quote originally in French

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Duality of man Nature of man

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Blaise Pascal
Source
Pensées
Medium
Epigram
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1670 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 4.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 4.