Quotes About Cowardice

Ayn Rand described Hayek's book as "pure poison"; Frank Chodorov "thought the program verged on intellectual cowardice"; libertarian economist Walter Block was probably not alone in thinking him only "a weak and conflicted supporter of the market"; and Hans-Hermann Hoppe referred to "Hayek's social-democratic theory of government".

el que no conoce el miedo resulta mucho más peligroso que un cobarde para sus compañeros.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.

Too many strive for the unachievable, and this pursuit consumes them. They rush frantic and desperate and so reveal weakness in the face of sadness. More than weakness, in fact. It is in truth a kind of cowardice, that which espouses an evasive disposition as if it were a virtue.

Do not flee us. Do not flee this moment, this scene. Do not confuse dislike and abhorrence with angry denial of truths you do not wish to see. I accept your horror and expect no forgiveness. But if you deny, I name you coward. And I have had my fill of cowards.

The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

The mother of cruelty is cowardice.

Time doesn't make us wiser, only more cowardly.

El tiempo no nos hace más sabios, solo más cobardes.

Miquel Moliner suffered from that affliction of people who feel guilty when they're not working; although he respected and even envied the leisure others enjoyed, he fled from it. Far from gloating about his manic work ethic, he would joke about his obsessive activity and dismiss it as a minor form of cowardice. While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Quería creerle con esa ansía que confiere la sospecha de que la verdad hace daño y que los cobardes viven más y mejor, aunque se en la prisión de sus propias mentiras.

for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain.

Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us "double minded" —hesitating between the world and God.

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

Friendships were tested in times of crisis, and she didn't want to be one of those people who out of exaggerated caution and perhaps even cowardice avoided friends who were having a hard time.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance, nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians...

Yes! It must be done by showing contrasts: one word for misery, ten for egotism, cowardice, closing ranks, crime. Won't it be wonderful! But it's true that it's this very atmosphere I'm breathing. It is easy to imagine it: the obsession with food.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.