Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
~ Randall Jarrell
All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.
~ Bible
This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
~ Will Rogers
One murder makes a villain millions a hero.
~ Bishop Beilby Porteus
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
~ E. M. Forster
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
~ R. D. Hitchcock
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
~ Goethe
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
~ Harvey Pekar
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
~ John Lennon
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~ Alexander Hamilton
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
~ John Keats
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
~ Michio Kaku
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
~ George F. Kennan
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
~ Albert Camus
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
~ William Hazlitt
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
~ Aristide Briand
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
~ Albert Einstein
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
~ Arthur Ashe
