They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.
Tim O'BrienStichwörter: war shame cowardice embarrassment
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.
Iain PearsStichwörter: knowledge evil willful-ignorance civilization guilt responsibility cowardice personal-responsibility genocide nazis hitler blame denunciation deportation
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
José RizalStichwörter: cowardice
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica RothStichwörter: brave cowardice four tris dauntless
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
--"Wanda
Stichwörter: god self-help prayer cowardice
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
OuidaStichwörter: men women cowardice adam-and-eve
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: bravery civilisation law cowardice
How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present
Robert WalserStichwörter: money wealth courage inequality class-warfare oppression cowardice poverty neighborhoods urban poor city urbanization
Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.
Scylar TyberiusStichwörter: cowardice bigotry life-lesson bullies haters
I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but he and his people were all brave and worthy conquerors. And I knew a man who sat on a magnificent throne of a big and majestic kingdom, but he was not a king at all, he was only a cowardly steward. If you are the king of a great kingdom, you will always be the only king though you live in the bushes. If you are the king of a small kingdom, you can lead your people in worth and honor and together conquer anything. And if you are not a king, though you sit on the king’s throne and drape yourself in many fine robes of silk and velvet, you are still not the king and you will never be one.
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: bravery cowardice destiny kingdom king fake royalty kings genuine heir-to-the-throne
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