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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.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Long Book Easy Pay Trouble Willing Conscience Doctors Diets Cowardice Laziness Pastor Guardian Long Life Doctor Who Tutelage

Author:Immanuel Kant

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

Wells Cowardice

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.”

Looks Certain Virtue Distance Convince Cowardice Identical

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”

Knows May Character Speak Wish Creatures Fellows Occasions Judged Cowardice

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.”

Fall Blame Blow Storm Pilots Cowardice Ducks Refuge Bullets Port

Book:Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero

Source: Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero

“I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.”

Fighting Battle Cowardice

Book:The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series

Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series

“Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?”

Cowardice Acknowledgement

Author:Markus Zusak

“She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.”

Real Forget Greed Never Forget Honour Cowardice Greedy Caution Dissent Defiance Lannisters Cersei Lannister

Author:George R. R. Martin

“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.”

Way Perfect Weakness Cruelty Bad Things Cowardice Ferocity No One's Perfect

Author:Veronica Roth

“Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”

“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.”

Made Ignorance Selfishness Cowardice Aggression Candor Dauntless Erudite Abnegation Duplicity Amity

Author:Veronica Roth

“...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.”

Ifs Names Brain Pieces Cowardice

Book:In Praise of Folly

Source: In Praise of Folly

“Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.”

Different Used Suffering Three Names President Liberty Hypocrisy Cowardice Founders Decency Politeness Pretense Intimidated Delicacy Different Names Chicanery

Author:John Adams

“Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life”

Real Real Life Cowardice

Author:Veronica Roth

“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.”

Ifs Should Easy Fronts Willing Prove Idiot Target Bullying Cowardice Recalls Eric

Author:Veronica Roth

“I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”

Weakness Cruelty Cowardice Ferocity

Author:Veronica Roth

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

Evil Rejection Cowardice Petty Atrocities Harlots True Evil

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”

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

Kind Worst Angry Cowardice

Book:The Jungle Book

Source: The Jungle Book

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

Motivation Opportunity Leadership Positive Proof Cowardice

Author:John McCain

“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

Lying Literature Cowardice Halfway Valor Rashness

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.”

Courage Resources Desperate Cowardice Diminish Be Courageous Aggravated

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Love is no assignment for cowards.”

Love Love Is Marriage Relationship Ancient Coward Cowardice Wise Man Once Said Assignments Positive Marriage

Author:Ovid

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

Men Mean Cold Patience Noble Breasts Cowardice Pale Mean Man

Book:Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.”

Has Beens Soul Moral Substance Patriotism Cowardice

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.”

Men War Hate Dies Fighting Peace Boys Youth Pride I Hate Old Man Anti War Antiwar Cowardice Making Peace Peace War Ubuntu Make Peace Not War

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.”

Want Heart War Humanity Courses Peace Half Cowardice

Book:No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society

Source: No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society

“If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.”

People Ifs Would Be Religion Virtue One Thing Degrees Highest Weakness Just One If I Could Willingness Cowardice Refuge Credulity

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.”

Thinking Should Christian Religion Lines Modern Possibility Politician Regard Atheist Cowardice Should I Jehovah Christian God

Author:Bertrand Russell

“At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.”

Men World Littles Faces Opinion Courage Bravery Independence Bottom Miserable Cowardice Steel Public Opinion Powder

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Strength Victory Weakness Cowardice

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.”

Courage Doubt Brave Cowardice

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Prove Bullying Cowardice Recalls

Book:The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant

Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant

“I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”

Giving Drink Fame Safety Drinking Alcohol Beer Pot Cowardice Drank Pubs Beer Drinking Drinking Beer Brewing Ale Brewing Beer Drinking Whiskey Whiskey Drinking Irish Beer

Author:William Shakespeare

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

Self Death Effects Dying Self Esteem Highest Destruction Extremes Esteem Cowardice Self Destruction

Author:Daniel Defoe

“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.”

Men Should War Spiritual Law Economic Morality Devil Committed Corruption Alcohol Setting Settings Cowardice Idolatry False Gods

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Choices Fighting Violence Patriotism Martial Arts Cowardice Advise Martial Arts Inspirational Fighting On Violence And Peace Patriotic Gun Will To Fight

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.”

Way Air Habit Patterns Buddhist Leap Cowardice Habitual Fresh Air Cocoons

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“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.”

Knows Faces Humanity Force Liberty Violence Crime Weakness Patient Cowardice Despotism Martyrdom Blunders Unfathomable

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.”

Firsts Helping Poetry Left Liberty Catholic Jew Libertarian Indifference Help Me Cowardice Libertarianism Socialist Nazi Pastor Theologian Inaction Libertarian Party Arresting

Author:Martin Niemoller

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

Feels Hands Clever Cowardice Palms Valor Valour Sneaking Out

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”

Men May Art War Worry Five Trouble Dangerous Destruction Shame Faults Sensitive Insult Honour Capture Temper Cowardice Art Of War Delicacy Hasty Provoked Recklessness Solicitude

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.”

Gone Suicide Brave Coward Cowardice Suicidal Sneak

Author:George Sewell

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

Feels Humans Human Nature Anxiety Cowardice Contemplating Infirmity

Book:The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

Source: The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

“Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?”

Knows Humans Death Evil Dying Cowardice Fear Of Death Baseness

Book:Selections from Epictetus

Source: Selections from Epictetus

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

Power Overcoming Cowardice Incorrigible

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.”

Men Firsts Lasts Fighting Military Battle Coward Combat Cowardice Manhood Entering Timidity Allowance Manliness Bashful Bashfulness

Author:George S. Patton

“To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”

Inspirational Self Literature Fear Easy Surrender Being Yourself Conformity Be You Cowardice Relatable Admirable Unafraid

Author:Irving Wallace

“Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.”

Inspirational Self Modern Negative Optimism Pity Cowardice Self Pity

Author:Cyril Connolly

“From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.”

Knows Long Faces Political Purpose Song Dies Individual Sides Streets Honor Soldier Singers Purpose Of Life Prisoner Cowardice Appreciated Familiarity Complacency Political Prisoners

Author:Mark Helprin

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