Cowardice Quotes
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The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
Charles M. Blow -
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
Adolf Hitler -
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
Michael Herr -
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler -
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
William Butler Yeats -
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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.'
William Bennett -
Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
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 -
Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Confucius -
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
Ernest Hemingway -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
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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.
Rollo May -
Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
Mahatma Gandhi -
You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
George Hearst -
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