“When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“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...”
“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
Hosea Ballou
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
Rollo May
“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice”
Mark Twain
“It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life”
Irish Sayings
“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
