Veronica Roth Quotes

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

Shoot you coward, you’re going to kill a man.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

One must always shoot; always shoot, general.

Guerillas are cruel to the weak and cowardly in the face of the brave.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

I dare you to put me in a back alley with Randy Orton or someone like that. I guarantee I'm not afraid of someone taller.

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

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.

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

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

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.