Cowardly Quotes - Page 11

• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Egalitarianism, People

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• If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

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• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Humble, Character

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

  Plato

  Inspire, Heroism

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.656, Modern Library

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• The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

  Euripides

  Brave, Coward, Endure

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• Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children. I heard they were making statements that they were proud of losing fewer armed men than civilians. It's hard to see how they could be proud of such a situation.

  Jan Egeland

  Children, Men, Hezbollah

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• The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

  Elia Suleiman

  Father, Character, Epic

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• It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Book, Issues, People

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

  Danielle Arbid

  Real, Men, Misunderstood

  "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

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• The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Power, People

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• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Power, Alive, Flattery

  "Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Intelligent, Tunnels

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

  Charles Kingsley

  Friendship, True Friend, Mean

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

  Bill Maher

  Airplane, Coward, Want

  "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, www.imdb.com. 1993-2002.

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• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  Thomas Mann

  Peace, War, Military

  "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

  Anacreon

  War, Brave, Spares

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• No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Loyal, Conjecture

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• Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Disappointment, Virtue

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• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mean, Men, Doors

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• To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Running, Modern Life, Danger

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

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• Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Imagination, Temptation, Execution

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• If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

  Julie Klausner

  Race, Childhood, Would Be

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