Susan Sontag Quotes

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

… there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

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

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

My greatest fear has always been that I would be afraid - afraid physically or mentally or morally and allow myself to be influenced by fear instead of by my honest convictions.

It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Cowardice is no virtue.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.