We have again become pious--so do those apostates confess; and some of them are still too pusillanimous thus to confess.
~Friedrich Nietzsche,Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None


There are such women, and they will love you just as readily as any pusillanimous product of bourgeois sheltered life.
~Jack London, Martin Eden



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Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order
Spiro T. Agnew (b. 1918), U.S. Republican politician, vice president. Speech, September 10, 1970, Springfield, Illinois. Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew (1971).

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).