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
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
Billy Connolly
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
Brian Eno
Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius
The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice - or worse - of the progressive Left.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Ephraim Mirvis
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker Yockey
The seven deadly sins should be updated. We should add an eighth sin: Cowardice.
Gad Saad
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
That's the biggest act of cowardice, faking injuries.
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.
Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.
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.
Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
