Cowardice Quotes
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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 -
Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
David Dudley Field II -
To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Confucius -
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
William Faulkner -
Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
Sean Penn
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
William James -
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
Ivy Compton-Burnett -
All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
William H. Whyte -
True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It is cowardice to commit suicide.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.
Herbert Spencer -
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
Rudyard Kipling -
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Jose Rizal -
Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.
Paul Neilan -
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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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
Theophrastus -
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus -
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin