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Cowardice Quotes

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down Picture Quote #1

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame Picture Quote #1

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous Picture Quote #1

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail Picture Quote #1

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next that they have no power whatsoever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny, of which they are the victims, which make their sufferings so especially touching. There is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power Picture Quote #1

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive Picture Quote #1

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Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow Picture Quote #1

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune Picture Quote #1

I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one Picture Quote #1

... and I believed that everyone but those kneeling in front of me saw, and that was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me Picture Quote #1

I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely cowardice had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live Picture Quote #1

I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark Picture Quote #1

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At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion Picture Quote #1

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor Picture Quote #1

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice Picture Quote #1

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it’s as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little Picture Quote #1

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves Picture Quote #1

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor Picture Quote #1

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Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go Picture Quote #1

It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed Picture Quote #1

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith Picture Quote #1

Because at bottom, I’m interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people’s heads Picture Quote #1

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I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle Picture Quote #1

His secret realisation of his physical cowardice led him to underrate his exceptional moral courage Picture Quote #1

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice Picture Quote #1

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance Picture Quote #1

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive Picture Quote #1

It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities Picture Quote #1

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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down (Cowardice Quotes) Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame (Cowardice Quotes) If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous (Cowardice Quotes) Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail (Cowardice Quotes) Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next that they have no power whatsoever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny, of which they are the victims, which make their sufferings so especially touching. There is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power (Cowardice Quotes) The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive (Cowardice Quotes) Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow (Cowardice Quotes) It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune (Cowardice Quotes) I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one (Cowardice Quotes) ... and I believed that everyone but those kneeling in front of me saw, and that was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me (Cowardice Quotes) I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely cowardice had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live (Cowardice Quotes) I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark (Cowardice Quotes) At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion (Cowardice Quotes) If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor (Cowardice Quotes) To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice (Cowardice Quotes) As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it’s as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little (Cowardice Quotes) Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves (Cowardice Quotes) Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor (Cowardice Quotes) Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go (Cowardice Quotes) It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed (Cowardice Quotes) But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? (Cowardice Quotes) 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 (Cowardice Quotes) Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith (Cowardice Quotes) Because at bottom, I’m interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people’s heads (Cowardice Quotes) I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle (Cowardice Quotes) His secret realisation of his physical cowardice led him to underrate his exceptional moral courage (Cowardice Quotes) Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice (Cowardice Quotes) Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance (Cowardice Quotes) We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive (Cowardice Quotes) It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities (Cowardice Quotes)

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