A Quote by Max Beerbohm

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Max Beerbohm

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Conformist Conscience Cowards Makes Us

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Max Beerbohm
English - Actor
August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Marjane Satrapi

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

William Shakespeare

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Elie Wiesel

Imagination makes cowards of us all.

Ethel Mumford

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

William Shakespeare

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

Mignon McLaughlin

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Samuel Rutherford

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

William Shakespeare

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

Ayn Rand

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

Samuel Johnson

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

William Shakespeare

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.