Cowardice famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
-- Adolf Hitler -
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
-- Albert Camus -
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
-- Charles Churchill -
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
-- Charles Lamb -
The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
-- Charles M. Blow -
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
-- Charles Peguy -
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...
-- China Mieville -
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
-- Chrysippus -
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.
-- Corey Stoll -
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
-- Daniel Defoe -
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
-- Duke of Wellington -
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.
-- Edward Everett -
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
-- Eric Hoffer -
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
-- Eric Hoffer -
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
-- Euripides -
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
-- Francois Mauriac -
You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.
-- Fred Hollows -
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
-- George Hearst -
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
-- George Orwell -
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
-- Georges Bidault -
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....
-- Hosea Ballou -
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
-- Jerome Cady -
But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.
-- Jim Butcher -
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
-- John Brown -
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
-- John McCain -
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
-- Jose Rizal -
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
-- Jose Rizal -
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
-- Joseph Barber Lightfoot -
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
-- Kurt Huber -
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
-- Mark Lawrence -
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
-- Markus Zusak -
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
-- Merle Shain -
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
-- Peter Ustinov -
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus -
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
-- Richard Harris -
Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
-- Robert Ardrey -
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
-- Tadashi Yanai -
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
-- Theophrastus -
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
-- Theophrastus -
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
-- Veronica Roth -
Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
-- Veronica Roth -
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
-- Veronica Roth -
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
-- William Morley Punshon -
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
-- Andre Dubus -
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
-- Nicholas II of Russia -
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
-- Dominique Pire -
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.
-- Russell D. Moore -
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.
-- Shailer Mathews -
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.
-- John Bosco -
Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.
-- Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur
