It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: friendship friends judgment cowardice character support speak defend reliance judgmental-people judgmental supporters fake-friends
The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the New Left Review. However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it.
Christopher HitchensTags: sex liberalism corruption cowardice delusion debate idiocy bill-clinton leftism arkansas impeachment-of-bill-clinton mccarthyism lewinsky-scandal witch-hunt alger-hiss new-left-review verso-books
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver GoldsmithTags: strength justice guilt cowardice conviction faults
He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun and a knife! A man needs no courage at all to stand behind these things that make him feel invincible and bigger than he ever will be! I don't say that no one should fight! Because battles must be fought, and wars will always be won! But let those who fight, fight with bare hands! The measure of true strength! With his hands and feet and nothing but! The country with truly strong men is able to have soldiers that need not a knife, that need no guns! And if you can soar even higher than that; fight with your pens! Let us all write! And see the substance of the man through his philosophies and through his beliefs! And let one philosophy outdo another! Let one belief outlast another! And let this be how we determine the outcome of a war!
C. JoyBell C.Tags: inspirational-quotes courage bravery warfare cowardice fighting philosophies battle battles wars battling the-art-of-warfare the-pen true-bravery
I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?
Tags: humor bravery cowardice eternal-war alex-scarrow
Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.
Mark Lawrence* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.
George OrwellTags: wwii hypocrisy cowardice journalism poland stalin warsaw-uprising
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Andrea DworkinTags: oppression cowardice
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
Tags: people cowardice monsters frighten
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