#cowardice

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

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward! ↗

— Homer

#cowardice #death #greece #war #death

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barricade #coward #cowardice #desert #ego

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. ↗

— José Rizal

#cowardice

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

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda ↗

— Ouida

#god #prayer #self-help #cowardice

Survival feels like cowardice. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#survival #cowardice

Fight or flight? If I had wings, there’d be no choice. But since I don’t have wings, I have to rely on my cape, and a long running start.  ↗