Chickenshit Quotes

“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

“Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit." That's also a touchstone of my spiritual beliefs.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.”
― Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

“Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.”
― Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

“Xcuse me but WTF have writers and artists been “SAFE” ever? Um, that would be never. Don’t you know that infamous quote, you preening pansy wannabes?”
― Scott C. Holstad, Where Do We Go from Here?