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The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be… — Frantz Fanon
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. — Orson Scott Card
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. — Holbrook Jackson
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier.… — Ammon Hennacy
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried… — David McCullough
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... — William Faulkner
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier… — Paulo Coelho
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. — George Orwell
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… — Fernando Pessoa
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. — Zora Neale Hurston
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or… — C.S. Lewis
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. — Dean Koontz
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality,… — Jose Saramago
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — Marjane Satrapi
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. — George Bernard Shaw
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding… — Matthew Scully

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