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“You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a closet of your home. There`s a bright red button. You can push tha...”
“I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...”
“Do you see the irony at all, Tristan? I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. What irony? I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. Th...”
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
“So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?”
“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;”
“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
“Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are ...”
“I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.”
“Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.”
“Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.”
“Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.”
“Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.”
“...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.”
“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Dont imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet rgime, or any other rgi...”
“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 i...”
“Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.”
