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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. -- Unknown, Source | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Unknown, Source at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com 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 | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Howe, Edgar Watson at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. -- Proverb, English | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Proverb, English at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Emerson, Ralph Waldo at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com A hero is someone right who doesn't change. -- Foreman, George | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Foreman, George at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com A hero is someone we can admire without apology. -- Kelley, Kitty | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Kelley, Kitty at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com 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 | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Dworkin, Andrea at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com 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 | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? -- Macaulay, Thomas B. | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Macaulay, Thomas B. at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com 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 | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Renan, Ernest at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. -- Gracian, Baltasar | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Gracian, Baltasar at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com 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. | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Enright, D. J. at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. -- Horton, Doug | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Horton, Doug at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth. -- Rogers, Will | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Rogers, Will at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com Calculation never made a hero. -- Newman, John Henry | Heroes and Heroism Send to friend | View Books by Newman, John Henry at Amazon.com | Books about Heroes and Heroism at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 82 Pages: 1 of 6 next  View all quotes