"Cowardice is no virtue."
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"To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked."
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"A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women"
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"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together."
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"There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men."
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"The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence."
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"Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?"
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"Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom."
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"Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged."
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"Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue."
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"It is the act of a coward to wish for death."
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"Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore."
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"He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
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"In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance."
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"The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!"
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"The vertue of a coward is suspition."
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"He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it."
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"I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward."
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"If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward."
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"Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it"
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