107 quotes found
“Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.”
“And it was only then that I realized what I had let myself in for, and only then I realized how bloody thick I had been not to have predicted it. It would seem that the combination of elements--wom...”
“This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.”
“There was always a screen behind which one could hide a superior who in turn had his superior orders, instructions, duties, commands and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard rea...”
“Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.”
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
“She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because ...”
“Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...”
“Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and Ive lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average mans a coward.”
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
“Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.”
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.”
“He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her t...”
“Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...”
“Survival feels like cowardice.”
“Looking ahead to future applications of electronics, [de Forest] grew even gloomier. He believed that 'electron physiologists' would eventually be able to monitor and analyze 'thought or brain wave...”
“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so ...”
“It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you den...”
“It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists wh...”
“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”
