Coward Quotes - Page 5

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.