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Cowardice Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,…
- Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
- To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.
- Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of…
- Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
- 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…
- 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…
- Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
- Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
- Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
- Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
- Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies…
- A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
- Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the…
More Cowardice Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
- Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel de Cervantes
- At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa
- You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty… — Sun Tzu
- The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb