Cowardice Quotes
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Aristotle
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
Robert Frost
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Confucius
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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
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Georges Bidault
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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!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Jose Rizal
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
Elizabeth Goudge
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
George Hearst