Coward Quotes - Page 26

• If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, People, Definitions

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• Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

  Russell T Davies

  Fighting, Kissing, Doctors

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• He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicide, Waiting, Spirit

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Men, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

  Christopher Paolini

  Believe, Men, Imagination

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

  Henry Rollins

  Brave Person, Mark, Behinds

  "Talk is Cheap". Live album by Henry Rollins, Volume 1, 1998.

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• Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

  Isaac Marion

  Moments

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Courage, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик

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• If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

  John Fowles

  Atheist, Intelligent, Definitions

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

  Julius Streicher

  Doe, Speak, Miserable

  "Julius Streicher" by Randall L. Bytwerk, (p. 211), 1983.

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• I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

  Jerzy Andrzejewski

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Jerzy Andrzejewski, David J. Welsh (1991). “Ashes and Diamonds”, p.81, Northwestern University Press

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• No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

  Chino XL

  Blood, Soldier, Matter

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• Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

  James Hervey

  Teacher, Intelligent, Men

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• Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Great Love, Democracy

  "Thy Kingdom Come, Studies in Daniel and Revelation" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 39), 1970.

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• Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
  The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
  Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

  John Wilmot

  Lying, Men, Self

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.102, Taylor & Francis

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• Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.

  David Clement-Davies

  Strong, Children, Hate

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• Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Hero, Titles, Gone

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• The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Fall, Fighting, Winning

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.308, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Feels

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• There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Differences, Discipline

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• Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

  Mas Oyama

  Risk, Victory, Way

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• What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?

  John Bertram Phillips

  Christian, Prayer, Hero

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

  Homer

  Fighting, Swings, Skills

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• Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1705, Manonmani Publishers

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