A Quote by Eugene V. Debs

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

Eugene V. Debs

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Eugene V. Debs
American - Politician
November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

Bobby Fischer

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

Alice Sebold

The abbot told me once that lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide it rather than accept yourself for who you really are. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. It's like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. His life is not as important to him as his reputation. In the end, who is the braver? The man who dies rather than be thought of as a coward or the man who lives willing to face who he really is?

Michael J. Sullivan

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

Snoop Dogg

The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

Franz Kafka

Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.

Anthony Levandowski

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Dwight L. Moody

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Mahatma Gandhi

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Cormac McCarthy

What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

Klaus Barbie

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

Henry David Thoreau

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Ernest Hemingway

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.