Quotes about Cowardice

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C. S. Lewis

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Noam Chomsky

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.

William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Harrison Grey Otis

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!

Otis and his paper were virulently anti-labor. See {617172} .

Oswald Spengler

Optimism is cowardice.

Christopher Hitchens

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

George S. Patton

We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.

Patton, though a great leader and fighting general, also was almost crazy and irrational at times. This quotation illustrates one of those periods. Somehow, most of the officers and enlisted men under his command were generally able to distinguish and live with him. In this case, no one tried to ferret out the cowards and kill them despite the Generals exhortation. Also, his—and other people’s notion that bravery is genetically inherited is scientifically incorrect.

Rollo May

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Ambrose Bierce

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Sometimes paraphrased as “the coward dies a thousand deaths, but the brave man dies but once.”

Winston Churchill

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

Nelson Mandela

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.