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Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

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

Book:Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

“It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.”

Self Character Feelings Passion Wealth Training Consequence Preservation Caution Innate Cowardly Uneasy Self Preservation

Author:Alexander Herzen

“There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.”

Stills Greater Trouble Danger Court Stores Lazy Cowardly

Author:William Barclay

“one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.”

Believe Mines Ready Oneself Blow Terror Life And Death Priests Cowardly

Author:Marie Bashkirtseff

“Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.”

Law Order Nations Social Causes Loss Rights Independence Soldier Empires Thrones Cowardly Social Order Magistrates

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.”

Mind May Country Dream Shadow Eternity Edges Confusion Nerves Refuge Sanctuary Cowardly Actual Life

Book:Fantastic Traveller

Source: Fantastic Traveller

“They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.”

Soul Perfect Love Is Rights Worst Claims Without Love Cowardly Perfect Love

Author:Hadewijch

“I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.”

Thinking Hate Social Media Social Media Cowardly Anonymity Bloggers

Author:Ice T

“The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.”

“I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.”

Earth Belief Christianity Fashion International Decline Superstitions Peace On Earth Cowardly

Author:Erich Ludendorff

“To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.”

Protect Cowardly

Author:Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.”

People Ifs Want Book Happens Lasts Artist Reading Knowing Directors Pages Tension Cowardly Spoilers

Author:Simon Pegg

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

Courage Goodness Cowardice Wickedness Indulge Cowardly Indulge In Physical Courage

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Men Sex Strength Men And Women Female Fairs Weak Strongest Despise Cowardice Cowardly

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”

Hard Class Middle Willing Cold Kings Mass Glasses Educated Ice Servant Middle Class Sentimental Brutality Cowardly Susceptible Servility

Author:Alfred Doblin

“Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?”

People Ifs World Might Walks Situation Please Smart Upset Why Not Associates Cowardly

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.”

Persons Order Dies Tomorrow Drink Eating Drinking Lust Sensuality Sensual Cowardly Eating And Drinking Lust For Life

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.”

Way Believe Kids I Believe Process Challenges Teach Player Teaching Negative Abuse Insult Manhood Positively Cowardly

Author:Gordie Gillespie

“Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.”

Action Conscience Remorse Cowardly

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.”

Men Should Stills Plans Cautious Cowardly Siege

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.”

Mind Body Care Natural Views Duty Taste Suits Temperament Mind And Body Cowardly Exaggerated Unwise

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.”

Wish Suicide Vain Cowardly

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.”

Knows Men Art Jobs Enjoy Difficult Pleasure Secret Enjoyment Avoidance Cowardly

Author:Alan Watts

“Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.”

Believe May Defeat Committed Terrorism Resolve Cowardly Cowardly Acts

Author:Doc Hastings

“remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.”

May Remember Humility Cowardly Firmness Presumptuous

Author:Marie Angelique Arnauld

“Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.”

Thinking States Fall Courses Humility Pride Despair Contrary Rising Cowardly Vexation Despondency Rising Again

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.”

Highest Ideals Brave Cowardly Ahimsa

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.”

Should Order Arms India Witness Honour Helpless Resorts Cowardly Dishonor Violence And Peace

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.”

Today Cities Violence Type India Nonviolence Fragrance Cowardly Stink

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.”

Love Love Is Secret Dog Cowardly Secret Love

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.”

Men I Can Enjoy Healthy Scene Blind Nonviolence Cowardly Blind Man

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.”

People Thinking Knows Social Moral Fashion Anger Institutions Foundation Absurd Despise Conventions Obliged Cowardly Formality

Book:The Torture Garden

Source: The Torture Garden

“What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.”

People Men Want Said War Would Be Fighting Natural Sleep Cities Air Building Response Blow British Rage Reactions Bunch Confusion Bombing Cowardly Retaliation Puzzling

Author:Nicholson Baker

“For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.”

People Thinking Doe Helping Purpose Fighting Atheism Mankind Battle Weakness Blessed Assuming Prepared All Time Lazy Cowardly God Exists

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.”

Ifs Ends Matter Light Vision Clear Stupid Intelligent Tunnels Cowardly End Of The Tunnel Clear Vision You Re Stupid

Author:Werner Herzog

“Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?”

Thinking Men Today Weak Silly Liars Bloody Cheat Vicious Traitor Cowardly Envious Grasping Hypocritical Backbiting

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”

People Honest Chiefs Coward Misfortunes Cowardice Cowardly Honest People

Author:Voltaire

“Cowardly dogs bark loudest.”

Dog Cowardly Bark

Author:John Webster

“Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.”

Giving Our Lives Dare Cowardly Sly

Book:A James Stephens Reader

Source: A James Stephens Reader

“To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

Ifs Matter Hands Religion Belief Wish Hell Source Comfort Hideous Cowardly Fiery Avengers

Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.”

Way Writing Hard Action Past Young Sides Known Violence Honest Victim Bullying Both Sides Inaction My Past Cowardly Perpetrators Vindictive

Author:Andre Dubus

“The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.”

World Doe Matter Reason Fighting Nations Principles Defense No Reason Cowardly

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.”

Men Has Beens Hands Government Form Desire Justice Quality Produce Citizens Bravery Institutions Slave Distinguished Foul Cowardly Forms Of Government Good Quality

Author:Dionysius of Halicarnassus

“Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.”

Hands Age Causes Hell Blessed Instruments Rewards Stranger Invention Satisfied Gentleman Receiving Fury Inventor Cursed Cowardly Artillery Devilish

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation”

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

Men Running Political Fighting Literature Conservative Fats Fighter Cowardly

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.”

People Thinking Ends Country Government Would Be Land Mines Survivor Treaties Cowardly Just Listen

Author:Paul McCartney

“A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.”

Helping Life Is Social Sleep Brother Battle Burden Shoulders Drunk Symbols Wheels Coward Solitary Egotism Social Life Cowardly Hermits Opiates Burdens Of Life

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.”

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