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Cowardice Quotes (page 2)

Oscar Wilde quote: "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil...."
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. Oscar Wilde
Marjane Satrapi quote: "In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give..."
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! Marjane Satrapi
The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to justify all kinds of violence in the name of that structure. It is enough for a person to free his thoughts, even temporarily, of this superstition and to look sincerely and seriously at the life of the nation for it to become clear to him that acceptance of the need to oppose evil with violence is nothing other than the justification people give to their habitual and favourite vices: vengeance,... Leo Tolstoy
Laura Schlessinger quote: "So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of..."
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. Laura Schlessinger
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking... Christopher Hitchens
Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me. Immanuel Kant
George MacDonald quote: "The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is..."
The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself. George MacDonald
I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance. Khalil Gibran
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and... Ernest Hemingway
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. Irving Layton
George R. R. Martin quote: "The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it..."
The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice... George R. R. Martin
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. Chuck Palahniuk
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. George R. R. Martin
Oswald Spengler quote: "Optimism is cowardice."
Optimism is cowardice. Oswald Spengler
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty. Sarah Orne Jewett

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