Cowardice Quotes

“Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.”

“And Athos had. He’d broken Holland one bone, one day, one order at a time. Until all Holland wanted, more than the ability to save his world, more than the strength to bring the magic back, more than anything, was for it to end.It was cowardice, he knew, but cowardice came so much easier than hope.”

“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.”

“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”

“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”

“Survival feels like cowardice.”

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”

“This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.”