#cowardly

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #cowardly #fight #own #quarrel

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. ↗

— David Mamet

#being #being lazy #cowardly #i #lazy

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#man #men #say #stupid #stupidity

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#before #cowardly #denounce #divine #ended

A penalty is a cowardly way to score. ↗

— Pele

#penalty #score #way

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue. ↗

— Dee Remy

#cowardly #death #foolish #life #loss

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#because #cowardly #dark #our #our people

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#courage #cowardly #desperation #dull #half