Cowardice Quotes
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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.
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
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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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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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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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Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
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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.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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It is cowardice to commit suicide.
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There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
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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.
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Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
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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.
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
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Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.
