Cowardice Quotes
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
Oscar Wilde
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
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The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
Aristotle
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Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible
manner because of our fear is cowardice.
R. M. Ballantyne
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Cowardice is the greatest sin.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
William Hazlitt
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer
Celtic Frost
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Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
Mahatma Gandhi