“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”
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Original: Nascondersi affermando di avere un carattere di merda, quando la verità è non voler riconoscere che si ha mancanza di rispetto: è pura vigliaccheria.
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“Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.”
“The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.”
The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge. This idea testifies that our remote ancestors were the lowest beasts. Only from dens, lairs, and caves, only from mouths filled with cruel fangs, only from hearts of fear and hatred, only from the conscience of hunger and lust, only from the lowest and most debased could come this most cruel, heartless and bestial of all dogmas.
“It is a cowardice to not move forward in opportunity. We cannot live in a life devoid of danger.”
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Courage, www.blogspot.com http://spunkymonky.blogspot.com/2004/09/courage.html,
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: It is from a strange mixture of tyranny and cowardice that exclusions have been set up and continued. The boldness to do wrong at first, changes afterwards into cowardly craft, and at last into fear. The Representatives in England appear now to act as if they were afraid to do right, even in part, lest it should awaken the nation to a sense of all the wrongs it has endured. This case serves to shew that the same conduct that best constitutes the safety of an individual, namely, a strict adherence to principle, constitutes also the safety of a Government, and that without it safety is but an empty name. When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.