Joseph Stalin Quotes

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Joseph Stalin

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• I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Like
  • Person

• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • You
  • Coward
  • Cautious

• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man
  • Brave
  • Coward

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

• From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Real
  • Death
  • Romantic

• Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,And the little gray mouse, she called him Blink,And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • She
  • Black
  • Dog

• Come back again, old heart! Ah me!Methinks in those thy coward fearsThere might, perchance, a courage be,That fails in these the manlier years;Courage to let the courage sink,Itself a coward base to think,Rather than not for heavenly lightWait on to show the truly right.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Coward

• I have no remedy for fear; there growsNo herb of help to heal a coward heart.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Fear

• I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Up
  • Coward

• It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

  

  Dolores Ibarruri
  • Wife
  • Hero
  • Coward

• The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Hero
  • Coward

• Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Coward

• At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Coward

• He was a hopeless coward and gambled so heavily it was a sheer miracle as how to he still wasn't thrown out into the street for being disorderly or being arrested for drunk driving.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • Driving
  • Miracle
  • Drunk

• I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

  

  John Buchan
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Passion

• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Brave
  • Lion
  • Coward

• By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Nature
  • Coward

• Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• The industry has not grown much during the past three or four years. It is practically stabilized at the present 1927. What has taken place is a shift from one manufacturer to another.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Past
  • Taken
  • Present

• Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morningsAnd lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are soberAnd think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fastenTheir hands upon their hearts.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Men
  • Drunk

• When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.

  

  Saul David
  • Fiction
  • Novels
  • Established

• It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Coward
  • Brave Man
  • Red Army