Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

If you leave without a fight, you will get the name of a coward.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

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.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

It must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.