Hero Quote by Alexandra Petri

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

— Joseph Stalin

“The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or…

— B.F. Skinner

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is…

— Anonymous

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In my experience, heroes can come with many different profiles, including some whose stories become known worldwide and, indeed, become part of history.

— Jim Kerr

No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.

— Wael Ghonim

No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only…

— Jim Morrison

“A hero isn’t defined by winning. Loads of heroes die in the effort. Most of them never get any recognition. No, a hero is…

— G. Norman Lippert