CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive…

— Aldous Huxley

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so…

— Friedrich Schiller

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice;…

— Charles Hodge

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve…

— Arthur Ashe

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

— Ernest Renan

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…

— Octave Mirbeau

There was no heroism in 'Manichitrathazhu' but there will be heroism in 'Chandramukhi.'

— P. Vasu

“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.”

— David Levithan

“But surely even heroes weary lugging around the burdens of their heroism.”

— J.H. Trumble

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it…

— Albert Camus

“Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.”

— Amit Kalantri

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz