Quotes about Cowardice

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The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liab — William Francis Butler
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely l — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the — George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. — Dean Koontz
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. — Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out w — Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Life is too short to cower. — Claire Cross, Double Trouble
Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor — Mahatma Gandhi
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He was probably a coward, — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Donald Trump is a liar because he is a coward. It is fear and cowardice that make him lie. it is his fragile ego that ma — Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy, What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
Survival feels like cowardice. — Ann Aguirre, Aftermath
Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed. — Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the lo — Marjorie M. Liu, Shadow Touch
Looking ahead to future applications of electronics, [de Forest] grew even gloomier. He believed that 'electron physiolo — Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the inte — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the gr — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards wh — Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune