Cowardice Quotes - Page 18

• It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

  Veronica Roth

  Bullying, Prove, Recalls

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.77, Harper Collins

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• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Hate, Men

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• Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Choices, Patriotism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

  Matthew Scully

  Pride, Animal, Men

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• Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

  Daniel Defoe

  Death, Self Esteem, Dying

  An Essay Upon projects 'Of Projectors'

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• Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Gun, Worry

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• Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, Basil, Trade

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, War, Men

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• The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

  Jean Lorrain

  Real, Men, Law

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• Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

  John McCain

  Positive, Leadership, Motivation

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• Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

  E. W. Howe

  Courage, Bravery, Enemy

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• I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

  Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

  Hate, Political, Principles

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• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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• Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Political, Vices

  Thomas Paine (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.383, OUP Oxford

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• Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice" "Then it should be easy for you," Eric sys. "If you're willing ot take his place.

  Veronica Roth

  Bullying, Eric, Target

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Betrayal, Thinking, People

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• Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Real Life

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• If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Dog, Vices, Guilty

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Time to Go! Time to Go!"), 1967.

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• Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Fighting, Winning

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.79, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Weakness, Succeed

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• You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Grace, Coward

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.125, A&C Black

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• Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

  Rollo May

  Running, Long, Apathy

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fear, Driven, Companion

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.168

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• Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Coward, Helping

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.206, Penguin

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• I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

  China Mieville

  Regret, Understood

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