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.
Herbert Spencer
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
Ernest Hemingway
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Confucius
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All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
Nikolai II Aleksandrovich
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
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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
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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.
William H. Whyte
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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.
William Faulkner
