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“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
― Travels in Hyperreality
― Travels in Hyperreality
“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
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“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.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Charles George Gordon
― Charles George Gordon
“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
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