Coward Quotes - Page 4

• Cowards can never be moral.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Moral

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

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• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Human Condition, Mankind

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

  Max Beerbohm

  Non Conformist, Conscience, Conformist

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books

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• The coward's weapon, poison.

  John Fletcher

  Poison, Weapons

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• To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

  Rodney Alexander

  Thinking, Fairs

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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  Umberto Eco

  Sports, Dream, Real

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Drunk, Goes On

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

  Kevin Costner

  Military, War, Men

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• Despair gives courage to a coward.

  Thomas Fuller

  Courage, Giving, Despair

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• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

  Brooke Westcott

  Hero, Eye, Men

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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• Courage is the goal of cowards.

  Alan Watts

  Goal

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• Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Used, Fascists, Moron

  Misattributed. "Christopher Hitchens Never Said That Memorable Line About Islamophobia" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 12, 2014.

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• Reflection makes men cowards.

  William Hazlitt

  Reflection, Men

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.86

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Delight

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

  Epictetus

  Taken, Roots, Dread

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

  Dolores Ibarruri

  Hero, Wife, Widows

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Military, Hero, Fighting

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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• While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

  Al Gore

  Real, President, Likes

  "Gore blasts Bush on environment". www.cnn.com. January 15, 2004.

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• Bullies are always cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Bully, Cowardice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2824, Manonmani Publishers

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• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, People, Want

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Battle

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