Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
Margaret Chase Smith
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
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
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Robert Anthony
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
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
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
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace
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
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
Philip Kearny
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
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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