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> [Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/without-will-without-individuals-there-are-no-heroes-but-neither-are/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

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## More by Gertrude Himmelfarb

> [The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/the-footnote-would-seem-to-be-the-smallest-detail-in-a-work-of/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered his last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/when-president-clinton-on-the-anniversary-of-his-election-spoke-in/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/as-liberty-of-thought-is-absolute-so-is-liberty-of-speech-which-is/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/the-present-illegitimacy-ratio-is-not-only-unprecedented-in-the-past/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [“Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/stigmas-as-the-corollaries-of-values-if-work-independence/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/the-real-movement-of-history-it-turns-out-is-fueled-not-by-matter-but/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/postmodernism-entices-us-with-the-siren-call-of-liberation-and/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/in-its-sentimental-mode-compassion-is-an-exercise-in-moral/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/nothing-is-as-seductive-as-the-assurance-of-success/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/the-marxist-combination-of-materialism-and-determinism-is-fatally/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/absolute-liberty-tends-to-corrupt-absolutely/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/for-rousseau-and-mandeville-the-absence-of-a-moral-instinct-meant-the/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

> [Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/without-will-without-individuals-there-are-no-heroes-but-neither-are/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

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