Cowardice Quotes
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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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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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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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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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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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.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of 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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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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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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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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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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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst 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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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
