Cowardice Quotes
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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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.
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
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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!
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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
