338 Quotes About Cowardice

Conformity and cowardice are the same thing.

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

العالم يحاسب على الجُبن، لأنه يحتقر الضعفاء، أما الأقوياء وكل من يقوم بجريمته علناً، فقلما يحاسب، أو أنها تقع عندما ينهار ويضعف. هذا العالم البائس هو عالم القوة والأقوياء، أما البقية فلا وجود لهم سوى في هوامشه.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

Like shyness, cowardice cannot swim in alcohol.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.