Quotes About Cowardice

Il dardo omicida che è stato scoccato Non ha toccato terra; è la via più sicura E' quella di evitarne la caduta. Dunque, a cavallo. Non indugiamo in leziosi congedi: Prendiamo il volo. C'è onore nella fuga Di chi abbandona il luogo in cui s'è estinta ogni pietà

Increasingly, Christian life seems to be nothing more than a particular way of behaving, a code of good conduct. Christianity is increasingly alienated, becoming a social attribute adapted to meet the least worthy of human demands - conformity, sterile conservatism, pusillanimity and timidity; it is adapted to the trivial moralizing which seeks to adorn cowardice and individual security with the funerary decoration of social decorum.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

Quase nunca choro. Não sou mais forte do que aqueles que ficam de olhos molhados, sou mais fraco. Eles arriscam. Quando se tem só pele e osso, sentimentos são coragem. Eu prefiro ser cobarde.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Poison may be a coward's weapon, but it's an effective one.

Coward that I am, I flee. My heart thundering, my hands shaking. But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.

I hate male cowardice and the way they always have each other's backs. They have no control. They justify everything their dicks make them do. And they get away with it. Nearly every time.

The things that happened behind the closed door of that house were appalling, and like a coward, I did a flit. I left them to it.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Comprendí en los días que pasé con él que el malvado es, en verdad, un ser ruin que no tiene el valor de mirar a la cara a sus víctimas, que prefiere confiar a otros la odiosa tarea de infligir sufrimiento.

La humanidad, que desprecia la salud mientras la posee, guarda su fe más ciega para los que la consuelan y entretienen en la gran cobardía de la dolencia

To love is to be tired of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers—which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice.

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed - all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he's laughing, of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets.

Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed—all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he laughing, of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets.

Lyra was in tears. Her dear, her brave one, her fearless defender, was going to die, and she would not do him the treachery of looking away, for if he looked at her he must see her shining eyes and their love and belief, not a face hidden in cowardice or a shoulder fearfully turned away.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism".

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.