Moral Cowardice Quotes

#1. The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice
and always has been.

Mark Twain

#2. Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Margaret Chase Smith

#3. Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

Ayn Rand

#4. Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Russell D. Moore

#6. I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

James Callis

#7. There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Edward Abbey

#8. I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

Robert Polidori

#9. The wise man knows he doesn't know.

Laozi

#10. A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

Varlam Shalamov

#11. Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

Gerry Spence

#12. The President was in seventh heaven when he heard himself being teased like this; he strutted about and thrust his chest out; never did a man of the robe stick out his neck so far, not even one who has just hanged a man.

Marquis De Sade

#13. Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

Martha Gellhorn

#14. The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!

Randy Orton

#15. Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating?

Karen White

#16. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Huey Lewis

#18. Chemists all agree on the fundamental facts of chemistry.

Richard Carrier

#19. I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.

Ishmael Beah

#20. Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End. An ending is an arbitrary thing, an act of cowardice or fatigue, an expedient disguised as an aesthetic choice or, worse, a moral commentary on the finitude of life.

Michael Chabon

#21. It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

Rebecca Adamson

#22. Honestly, my personality is cool and easy-going. But once I started wearing skirts and put on some make up, I transform into that sexy kind of person.

Park Bom

#23. In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man. At the rear of the sled toiled a second man. On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again.

Jack London

#24. The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe