cowardice

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it__ needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You__e hit no traitor on the hip. You__e dashed no cup from perjured lip. You__e never turned the wrong to right. You__e been a coward in the fight.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

Explanations are for cowards.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don__ imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.

The thing about me is _ essentially, I__ a coward.I am. I can__ stand weird stuff, anything that__ not normal. [_]I__ a coward, and I__e faced it, and I__e learn to accept it. And I__ okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don__ think my parents know this about me. [_]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.

...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.