D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

In the American provinces formerly subject to the Spanish Empire a brilliant scene is opened at present, the valor, the resolution of the heroes, the enthusiasm of the ancient and modern republicans have been displayed gloriously for the cause of national liberty. The sword of expiring tyranny has immolated in some places many victims; but from their blood new heroes have arisen.

I am ... one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.

Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us, values like food that has gone bad-and when food has gone bad it makes us sick, these values make us sick. We have to go against the current! And you, young people, be the first: Go against the grain and be proud of going against the grain. Go on, be brave and go against the current! And be proud of doing it!

Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.