#coward

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #cowardice

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there. ↗

— Damon Meredith

#coward #cowardice #government #leaders #leadership

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ↗

— Rollo May

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Tradition has made women cowardly. ↗

— Nance O'Neil

#made #tradition #women

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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