45 Cowardice Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. Niccolo Machiavelli

You Confidence People Hatred Cowardice Distrust Both Through Generate Disarm Opinions Commence Offend Lack Either Them Show

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. Adolf Hitler

Stupidity Cowardice Expression

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. Confucius

Cowardice See Right

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May

Courage Cowardice Society Our Opposite Conformity

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower

Courage Cowardice Dead Fish Go Opposite Conformity Even Flow

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time Expediency Cowardice Neither Must Vanity Take Safe Because Politic Nor Question Ask Popular Conscience Right Position

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. Aristotle

Death Trouble Cowardice Braves Suicide Run Some Object He Noble True Does Escape Form While Ill Away

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Hosea Ballou

Truth Courage Cowardice Falsehood

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. Kurt Huber

Justice Law Cowardice Dares Immoral Point Blatant Reached Becomes Cloak Up Unethical Which Against Stand Stand Up Violations

Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Mahatma Gandhi

Fear Cowardice None Use

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. Swami Sivananda

Spiritual Meekness Cowardice Humility Indeed Weakness Powers

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Ayn Rand

Cowardice Than Conformist Lower Fashionable Level

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Courage World Will Men Face Miserable Cowardice Steel Bottom Powder Because Opinion Bravery Public Little Public Opinion Appears Lurks

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice. Hillary Clinton

Ignorance Anger Thrive Cowardice Extremism Intimidation

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Oriana Fallaci

War Man Courage Humanity Intelligence Beauty Cowardice Nothing Way Foolishness Him Does Reveals Ugliness Enigma Alas

Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter. Brin-Jonathan Butler

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage Desperate Fears Cowardice Resources Dangers Diminishes Timid Brave Aggravate

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice Imagination Ability Simply Almost Always Suspend Lack

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. Miguel de Cervantes

Cowardice Valor Lies True Between

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. Tom Stoppard

Future Good You Generation Lie Paradise Leader Cowardice Down Enough Adolescence Brute Brute Force Sacrifices Wrong Force Felt Huge Wheels Ask Sentimental Your Notion Right

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. Veronica Franco

Death Truth You Fight Women Speak Will Example First Cowardice Setting Would Would-Be Follow Able Be The First Until Prove Decide Them Realized Should Act Many Amongst Resides

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time. Billy Connolly

Time You People Speak Hide Dark Cowardice Sit Hiding Easy Up Get Microphone Front Want Act Shout Waste

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