“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.”
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
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