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

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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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Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
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Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' Oklahoma!
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Another quote originally in French

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

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Time
1966 1960s 20th century
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Masculin Féminin [Masculine Feminine]. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Anouchka Films-Argos Films/Sandrews-Svenskfilmindustri, 1966.