(83 quotes found)
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice”
Adolf Hitler
“The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille”
Karl Marx
“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
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
Plutarch
“Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
Ernest Hemingway
