Best 303 quotes in «cowardice quotes» category

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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.

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.  All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

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

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option.

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

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

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Optimism is cowardice.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

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

The coward is an object to be pitied.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.