There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

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

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

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

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.