Raskolnikov Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.”

— George MacDonald

“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”

— T.H. White

“He wasn't a bad person. He didn't want to fight. The trouble was that he'd tried to be part of the larger questions, tried…

— Kiran Desai

“He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted…

— Ken Follett

“He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to…

— Kate O'Brien

“I let a man destroy me, and as a result, I became a coward.”

— Holly Renee

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

— Robert Ludlum

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad…

— Leo Tolstoy

“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and…

— Marcel Proust

“What sort of man would proclaim himself a coward?”

— George R.R. Martin

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather