Cowardly Quotes - Page 7

• To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

  Steve Allen

  Hands, Religion, Wish

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

  Andre Dubus

  Bullying, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fighting, Principles, Doe

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessed, Hands, Gentleman

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Kings, Dark

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• You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Fashion, Anger, Thinking

  Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

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• Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

  Timothy Keller

  Love Is, Self, Truth Is

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

  Graham Greene

  Passion, Jealous, Hatred

  The End of the Affair ch. 3 (1951)

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• To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Mind, World

  Ted Nugent (2000). “God, guns, and rock 'n' roll”, Regnery Press

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• In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Expectations, Morality

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.61

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• We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

  Aristotle

  Courageous

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• No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

  Roger Moore

  Adventurous

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• It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Indulge In, Wickedness

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Sex, Men

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• That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.

  Alfred Doblin

  Kings, Glasses, Ice

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• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  Margaret Mead

  Fear, Fog, Punishment

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• An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

  Steve Martin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Gentleman

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
  [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

  Tacitus

  Bravery, Despair, Fortune

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• A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Fighting, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.

  Paul McCartney

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "McCartney, wife host land mine benefit". The Associated Press, www.today.com. November 16, 2005.

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• For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Found, Mets

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Brain, Bears, Idiot

  Ambrose Bierce (1964). “Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

  Louis L'Amour

  Scare, Matter, Faces

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The First Fast Draw: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

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• Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, College, Degrees

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