Zitat des Tages über Mutiger Mann / Brave Man:
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.
I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.
