“The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all — or there is no danger.”

“(Lola): Only mad men and cowards refuse to go to the war, when their homeland is in danger! - (Bardamu): So, hurrah for the mad men and the cowards!”

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.”

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

“The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.”

“Only the brave know how to forgive…A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”

“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”