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• In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Giving, Chance

  Marjane Satrapi (2004). “Persepolis Two”, Pantheon

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• Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strength, Victory, Weakness

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• You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Humanity, Liberty, Weakness

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• Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

  Soong May-ling

  Country, Progress, Politics

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• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  William James

  Exercise, Men, Giving

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Indulge In, Wickedness

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• As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

  Jack Kelly

  Long, Stupidity, Greed

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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 age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

  Charles Darwin

  Age, Noble, Lays

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• Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Tolerance, Intolerance

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• It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fighting, Brave, Coward

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Adversity, Mind

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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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, Coward

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• When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, Numbers, Masquerade

  "First Things, Last Things". Book by Eric Hoffer. Chapter 8: "Thoughts on the Present", 1971.

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• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Bravery, Victory

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• Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

  William Morley Punshon

  Safe, Expediency, Asks

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• You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

  Peter De Vries

  Real, Issues, Drawing

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• If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

  Jane Porter

  Coward, Looks, Valor

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• Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Battle, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Mean, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Bullies are always cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Bully, Coward

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

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• That all men would be cowards if they dare,
  Some men we know have courage to declare.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Coward, Would Be

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.155

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• Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Doe, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Names, Common Sense

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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