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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness
Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.
Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.