#cowardice

Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it." "I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?" "Er..." Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#cowardice #humor #parody #imagination

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#coward #cowardice #fear #hero #heroism

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex... ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#men #men

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#cowardice #decadence #government #law #nature

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#weakness #cowardice

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fear #cowardice

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#oppression #cowardice

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. ↗

— Henry Addington

#hate #i #lack #liberality #nine

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#cowardice #lies #rashness #true #valor

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#cowardice #dark #easy #front #get