Cowardice Quotes - Page 8

• Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Heart, Sharks

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Sex, Men

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• My men have become women, but the women men.

  Herodotus

  Courage, Women, Men

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• I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

  Spike Milligan

  Hero, Coward, Legs

  Robert Graves, Spike Milligan, Pauline Scudamore (1991). “Dear Robert, Dear Spike: the Graves-Milligan correspondence”

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• Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

  Aeschylus

  Courage, Fear, Want

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• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Military

  Men at War introduction (1942)

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• Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Painful, True Courage

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.101

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• Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Cutting, Coward, Weapons

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• The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Rejection, Arrogance, Worship

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.20, Macmillan

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• A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

  Susan Hill

  Men, Safety, Soul

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Nov 01, 2014

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• Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Hate, Giving, Inspire

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• Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Vices, Terrible

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• Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

  Plato

  Fall, Men, Soldier

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.650, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wells

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• To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Forgiving, Vegan, Injustice

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• I was a coward. I went to the war.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Coward, Rainy

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

  Douglas Adams

  Want, Closets, Valor

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.543, Del Rey

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• In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Strong, Fear, Hate

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.98

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• To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

  Emily Post

  Lying, Punishment, Black

  Emily Post (1959). “Children are people: how to understand and guide your children”

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• Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Coward, Proof

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

  Walter Mosley

  Suicide, Fear, Rooms

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• I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

  Anne Frank

  Thinking, Middle, Stem

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.77, Hamilton Books

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• Survival feels like cowardice.

  Ann Aguirre

  Survival, Feels

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.17, Penguin

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