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about Heroes To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. Charles Horton Cooley Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. Doug Horton The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. Eugene Debs It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Louis Pasteur By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of courage, loyalty, resourcefulness, charisma, above all, selflessness. He is an example of right behavior; the sort of man who risks his life to protect his society's values, sacrificing his personal needs for those of the community. Paul Zweig I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up. Spike Milligan Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. Louis Kossuth You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George Bernard Shaw The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. Nathaniel Hawthorne | |