Cowardice Quotes

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as...

This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on...

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigu...

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is...

Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little c...

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Instead, though, as he drew nearer, his mind kept drifting back to Gansey's voice in the cave the da...

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'othe...

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the N...

And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; y...

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians be...

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God a...

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender them...

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own ...

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice...

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

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

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of ...

A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the...

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruct...

I was a coward. I went to the war.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yell...

Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it.""I imag...

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect...

Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loath...

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have alrea...

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...

Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion t...

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst...

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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

We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which...

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long reta...

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each ...

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so t...

A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a...

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doi...

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi...

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of ...

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

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to s...

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'...

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enabl...

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That al...

The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots...

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?""Not ...

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of ...

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for les...

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to...

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water d...

Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bi...

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird o...

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You wil...

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for year...

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.