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Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!. (Quote by - Edmund Stoiber)

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. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda. (Quote by - J.R.R. Tolkien)

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)

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. (Quote by - Aristotle)

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. (Quote by - Jeremy Collier)

I am so cautious that it sometimes verges on cowardice. (Quote by - Muhiddin Kabiri)

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

When two parties from among you had determined that they should show cowardice, and Allah was the guardian of them both, and in Allah should the believers trust. (Quote by - quran)

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. (Quote by - Dolores Ibarruri)

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. (Quote by - Confucius)

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. (Quote by - Rollo May)

Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate reparations movement gains strength. (Quote by - John Carlisle)

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille. (Quote by - Karl Marx)

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. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)

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. (Quote by - Kurt Huber)

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. (Quote by - Georges Bidault)

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. (Quote by - Frank Medlicott)

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. (Quote by - Jack Handy)

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. (Quote by - Theophrastus)

It was just cowardice. That's trying to hurt people and there should be no place in the game for that. This was a disgrace. (Quote by - Pat Quinn)

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