David Dudley Field II Quotes

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Cowardice is no virtue.

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

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

Cowards can never be moral.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Frankly, this is not cojones, this is cowardice.

It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

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

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.