Cowed Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and… — Taslima Nasrin
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that… — Rudolf Otto
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of… — Osbert Sitwell
There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no… — Thomas Oden
The media in America has become so cowed and compromised. — John Sayles
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.… — Doris Lessing
Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production. — Veerappa Moily
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay
It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed. — Mark Twain
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole… — John Stuart Mill
I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in… — Ken Auletta
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.… — Jeanette Winterson
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people… — Brennan Manning
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms… — Patricia Highsmith
Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also… — Rob Lowe
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But… — Alan Moore
Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning… — Sri Chinmoy
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right. — Earle Combs

Who Wrote These Cowed Quotes

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