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cowardly
«The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.»
«Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.»
Author: Hermann Goering
| Keywords:
cauldron, cowardly, crystal, crystal clear, emerged, extracted, German, middle class, synthesis, throwing, way of life
«To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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accuse, cowardly, defender, defenders, ennoblement, exaltation, gluttonous, kidney, kidneys, lascivious, lazy, mendacious, on the contrary, rhetoric, The Defenders
«Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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adolescents, aging, complacency, cowardly, malignant, survives
«There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Cowardice,
Strength
| Keywords:
assertion, confession, cowardly, followed, helplessness, steady, truculent, world affairs
«The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cowardly, dependence, entail, entailed, entailing, indecent, invalid, invalids, parasite, physicians, right to life, The Meaning of Life, vegetate, vegetated, vegetates, vegetating
«To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
assert, asserts, cloak, costs, cowardly, demands, entitled, forbearance, lazy, Too lazy
«The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
cowardly, disagree, disagreed, disagreeing, disagrees, disagree with, The People