Cowardice Quotes

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

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.

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

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

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.

O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

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

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles;Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

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

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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

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

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

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.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

He is white-livered and red-faced.

The coward is an object to be pitied.

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

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

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

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.