Cowardice Quotes

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.

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice...

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front ...

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too...

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate t...

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you,...

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long sinc...

Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the ...

I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutc...

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of t...

we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is ...

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are me...

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of p...

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...