Quotes for All
To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one’s own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness … Read more
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. Ernest Renan
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. Ernest Renan
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. Ernest Hemingway
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. Ernest Becker
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man… Love, then, is seen a religious problem Ernest Becker
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living – or that either can be fatal? Erich Segal
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life. Erich Fromm
I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of political heroism. I don’t mean that I want to play the hero. But we need to be amenable once again to creating grand narratives. Emmanuel Macron
I think ultimately the film ‘Room’ is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. Emma Donoghue