Cowardice Quotes

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

Rachel Hartman

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Lord Byron

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

Thomas Campbell

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint with much grievance.

Lazare Carnot

For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

Felicia D. Hemans

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

Thomas Jefferson

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill

We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

William Wordsworth

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.

Warren Eyster

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

Neal Shusterman

In short Donald Trump lies compulsively in large part because of who and what he is - a coward. This is why Mike Brzezinski said recently, "He brings nothing to the table.

Gizmo

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

Donna Lynn Hope

Coward people are afraid of failure & Failure is afraid of brave people

Mohammed Sekouty

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Veronica Roth

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

Andrea Dworkin

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

Charles Mackay

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

Martha Gellhorn

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Lance Conrad

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Explanations are for cowards.

J. Ross Clara

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

John Adams

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.

George Orwell

The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.

Kristen D. Randle

...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.

Hélène Berr

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

John Eldredge

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

Scylar Tyberius

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.

Jens Christian Grøndahl

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Theophrastus

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Brent Weeks

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

Joe Abercrombie

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

John Christopher

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are hemorrhoidal in their sensibility, the latter are constipated in the brain. And they complement each other by both betraying the law of life that demands the immediate defecation of all useless detritus, be it antiquated illusion or contemporary cowardice.

Juan Filloy

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

Robert Louis Stevenson

For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my increasing helplessness. I tended to tangle the IV and misplace the oxygen tube. As I started to say earlier, I could feel no sensible interest in the future. The moments became extraordinarily dimensionless - not without value but flat and a great deal emptier. When you learn you're fatally ill, time becomes very confusing, perhaps uninteresting, pedestrian. But my not caring if I lived or died hurt Ellen. And I was grateful that I could indulge my cowardice toward death in terms of living for her.

Harold Brodkey

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let him live with himself and take satisfaction from knowing that he has never been in a real fight in his life and that one day he will have to face his demons in person, along with the consequences, and that both can be far more painful than anything she could ever do to him.

Donna Lynn Hope

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

Sun Tzu

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Tony Vigorito

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

John Boyne

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun and a knife! A man needs no courage at all to stand behind these things that make him feel invincible and bigger than he ever will be! I don't say that no one should fight! Because battles must be fought, and wars will always be won! But let those who fight, fight with bare hands! The measure of true strength! With his hands and feet and nothing but! The country with truly strong men is able to have soldiers that need not a knife, that need no guns! And if you can soar even higher than that; fight with your pens! Let us all write! And see the substance of the man through his philosophies and through his beliefs! And let one philosophy outdo another! Let one belief outlast another! And let this be how we determine the outcome of a war!

C. JoyBell C.

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

Ogwo David Emenike

Sometimes it takes bravery in order to be a coward.

Lionel Suggs

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Henry Rollins

Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it.""I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?""Er..." Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir.

Terry Pratchett

A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'— tDandelion

Andrzej Sapkowski

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

James Miller

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

Gayle Forman

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