"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
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"When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence"
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"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."
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"For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?"
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"Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur."
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"What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing."
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"If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice."
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"If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice."
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"The greatest giver of alms is cowardice."
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"Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it."
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"Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred."
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"Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it."
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"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."
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"Cowardice is the mother of cruelty."
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"True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness."
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