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The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.
John Bosco
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.
Fred Hollows
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Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
John Brown
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
Jose Rizal
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There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
Chrysippus
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There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber
15.
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
Charles Peguy
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Confucius
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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
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The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
Charles M. Blow
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I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
Anne Frank
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Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
Jerome Cady
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Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
Richard Harris
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
Rudyard Kipling
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You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself
Swami Vivekananda
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
Veronica Roth
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
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Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
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Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Morley Punshon
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
Georges Bidault
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Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
Evan Esar
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Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.
Russell D. Moore
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Confucius