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Heroes and heroism

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
- Brecht, Bertolt
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Best Quotes about Heroes and heroism

1.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
Renan, Ernest

2.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Howe, Edgar Watson

3.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Gracian, Baltasar

4.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Beecher, Henry Ward

5.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Genet, Jean

6.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Adler, Felix

7.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Baudrillard, Jean

8.
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
Enright, D. J.

9.
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Lamartine, Alphonse De

10.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Irving, Washington

11.
The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
Cleaver, Eldridge

12.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe

13.
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Porteous, Bishop

14.
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Scott, Robert Falcon

15.
The great destroyers of nations and men are comfort, plenty and security. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

16.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Huxley, Aldous

17.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Rogers, Will

18.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Durrell, Lawrence

19.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Schwarzkopf, Norman

20.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
Shakespeare, William

21.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Paul, Jean

22.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
Chandler, Raymond

23.
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Jordan, Michael

24.
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Hegel, Georg

26.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Mencken, H. L.

27.
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kelley, Kitty

28.
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
Hegel, Georg

29.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Andrews, C. D.

30.
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
Rogers, Will

31.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Brecht, Bertolt

32.
Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.
Noonan, Peggy

33.
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Wilson, Angus

34.
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
Bangs, Lester

35.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Winterson, Jeanette

37.
Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
Eliot, George

38.
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
Sullivan, Mark

39.
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Hayes, Helen

40.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
Thompson, Roy

43.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
Churchill, Winston

44.
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Horton, Doug

45.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Mailer, Norman

46.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

47.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is sensitive; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Dworkin, Andrea

48.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Shaw, George Bernard

49.
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
Boorstin, Daniel J.

50.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Coolidge, Calvin


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