#coward

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. ↗

— Randall Terry

#context #cowardice #justify #out #retreat

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

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#coward #enough #i #lazy #oddly

You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cannot #coward #hero #without #you

The world has no room for cowards. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#room #world

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. ↗

— Philip Kearny

#declaration #enemy #follow #full #i

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#conformity #cowardice #opposite

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#brave #coward #either #him #man

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoyevsky #notes-from-the-underground #slave #age

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

— Jim Butcher

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