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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. — Mahatma Gandhi
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to… — Mahatma Gandhi
There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are… — Thomas Paine
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the… — Samuel Johnson
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. — Richard Harris
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. — George Bernard Shaw
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved,… — Arundhati Roy
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in… — Samuel Johnson
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky
Compromise does not mean cowardice. — John F. Kennedy
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day… — Edith Wharton
Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the… — Vincent de Paul
I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what… — Mahatma Gandhi
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only… — Frank Herbert
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in… — Walter Mosley
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise… — Henry David Thoreau
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
[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… — Hesketh Pearson
Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of cowardice. — Bobby Heenan
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. — Rollo May
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could… — Peter De Vries
Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards. — Mahatma Gandhi

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