“So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.”
“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”
“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituentsof so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, itschances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reasonenough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.”
“Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.”
“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”