Cowardice Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages…

— Jeremy Collier

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

— J. L. Austin

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But…

— Edmund Burke

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for…

— Betty Smith

“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some…

— Michel Foucault

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes…

— Chanakya

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

— Plato

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the…

— Samuel Johnson

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in…

— John Milton

“People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some…

— Alexander McCall Smith