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Quotes about heroes and heroism from QuotationsB The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. - Adler, Felix You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. - Andrews, C. D. Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you cant imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes. - Anouilh, Jean They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. - Bangs, Lester 1 Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - Barth, John What is a society without a heroic dimension? - Baudrillard, Jean The worlds battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. - Beecher, Henry Ward True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. - Bonaparte, Napoleon In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. - Boorstin, Daniel J. Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. - Brecht, Bertolt 2 Heroism is the divine re