Hero Quotes - page 3

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. (Andrea Dworkin)
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful. View quote
Julius Evola
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them. View quote
Yasser Arafat
Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. View quote
Bernard Malamud
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. View quote
Penn Jillette
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? View quote
Nikolai Gogol
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. (Patricia Hill Collins)
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men worship rank, some men worship heroes, some men worship power, some men worship God, and over these ideals they dispute -- but they all worship money. View quote
Mark Twain
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. View quote
Plato
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. (Nina Simone)
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. View quote
Norman Spinrad
Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight. View quote
Rick Riordan
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. View quote
Robert Shea
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. View quote
Sebastian Barry