Coward Quotes - Page 26

• He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

  Julius Streicher

  Doe, Speak, Miserable

  "Julius Streicher" by Randall L. Bytwerk, (p. 211), 1983.

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• I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

  Jerzy Andrzejewski

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Jerzy Andrzejewski, David J. Welsh (1991). “Ashes and Diamonds”, p.81, Northwestern University Press

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• The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hero, Heroic, Cowardly

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Race, Views, Kill Bill

  "Fictional character: Bill". "Kill Bill: Vol. 2", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

  Euripides

  Brave, Endure, Labor

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• The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Enemy, Doe

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• A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

  Julius Caesar

  Gallant, Thousand, Dies

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• When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to
  struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

  Marcus Garvey

  Country, War, Struggle

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.739, Univ of California Press

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• Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

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• I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Peace, Mistake, Men

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.46

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• I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

  Alan Garner

  Cop, Metaphor, Used

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• A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Liars, Lying, Men

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• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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• A coward's courage is in his tongue.

  Edmund Burke

  Tongue, Cowardice

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Country, Soldier

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• Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Cutting, Weapons, Pierce

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• The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Frugal, Cautious, Misers

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.47

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• It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

  Sallust

  War, Hands, May

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• The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.

  John Neihardt

  Fighting, Sinner

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• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thrifty, Cautious, Misers

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• Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching
  men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Liars, Hero

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Depression, Patience, Mind

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• Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1705, Manonmani Publishers

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• Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Self Esteem, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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