Quotes About Cowardice

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

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

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.

Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it.

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I preferred not to see them;

in my cowardice I became at once a man,

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

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

But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Love and cowardice are really the same thing.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

For the editors of the Standard, Buchanan not only represented a neo-isolationist populist insurgency but also threw into relief the brittleness, fragility, and cowardice of the Republican establishment.

I'll venture to suggest that we childless ones, whether through bravery or cowardice, constitute a kind of existential vanguard, forced by our own choices to face the naked question of existence with fewer illusions, or at least fewer consolations, than the rest of humanity, forced to prove to ourselves anew every day that extinction does not negate meaning.

A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward.

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!