#cowardice

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. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#go #go for it #goes #i #i think

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#cowardice #dangerous #irresponsible #keeps #minds

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#conformity #cowardice #opposite

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #inaction #life #molly-carpenter #life

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#the-west #united-nations #weakness #courage

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. ↗

— Charles M. Blow

#cowardice #courage

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. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#death #life #philosophy #suicide #death

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#evil #cowardice

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear? ↗

— Markus Zusak

#cowardice