This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her? Does she… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“The Iran War has sharply brought into focus the distinction between two approaches to geopolitics. Faced with a boldly hostile enemy, some… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Cowards die many time before their death... the valiant never tastes of death but once...- Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic. — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
