Behinds Quote by A. B. Simpson

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man…

— Norman Mailer

A hero is a normal man,with extraordinary faith.

— Trustory

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction,…

— Teresa de Lauretis

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have…

— Henry Fielding

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not…

— Aung San

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there…

— Thomas Carlyle

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and…

— George Matthew Adams

Man is greater than the gods.

— Swami Vivekananda

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish…

— Chadwick Boseman

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

— Heraclitus

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle…

— Mircea Eliade