"If cowardice is the thing that has allowed for all of this, the force that stops this cultural revolution can also be summed up by one word: courage."

Bari Weis, "We Got Here Because of Cowardice.  We Get Out With Courage."  Commentary  (November 2021)

"Your courage alone, Proarchus, slew you in battle." 

Anyte of Tegea (3rd century B.C.)

Courage is the foundation stone of virtue; but courage alone wins nothing but an early grave.  Bari Weis says many sensible things in the article I quote above, but there is no sense in her claim that courage is a force.  Courage is a resolve to use whatever force one may have without flinching, and force that is used without flinching is as great as that force can be; but courage by itself not a force.  This is why courage by itself never wins anything but an early grave. Read more of this post