![[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-must-be-emphasized-that-nonviolent-resistance-is-not-a-method-for-cowards-i.jpg)
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fighting honor beats
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that? Carol Moseley Braun
fighting
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. Carlos Fuentes
fighting years goes-on
Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently. C. S. Lewis
fighting left people
We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that. John Hudson
fighting men joy
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature. Agnes Smedley
fighting would-be dull
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater. Alan Sillitoe
fighting space people
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. Alan Shepard
fighting gentleman ugly
I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip. Charlotte Bronte
fighting battle feminism
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
coward obscurity rust
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
coward would-be poison
The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be. Brent Weeks
coward
Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters. Janet Reno
coward instinct
I was a coward on instinct. William Shakespeare
coward tongue cowardice
A coward's courage is in his tongue. Edmund Burke
coward chickens betting
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. B. C. Forbes
coward matter instinct
Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
coward-and-cowardice either fight finish gets ground middle shot stay taking turning wants
There is no middle ground when taking the hill. You either stay in the foxhole or fight to the finish. Turning back just gets you shot in the back - and no one wants to finish as a coward.
coward persons just-one
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. Edith Piaf
alternatives exhausted humans
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives Abba Eban
alternatives world way
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. Bruno Latour
alternatives classic cult
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. Bruce Campbell
alternatives sin dies
If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you. Charles Spurgeon
alternatives development fuel
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel. Bobby Jindal
alternatives matter investment
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry. Arthur Scargill
alternatives outcomes pathways
Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness. Stephen Jay Gould
alternatives hell should
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
alternatives scientist century
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. Bill Bryson