Hero Quotes
2488 quotes by 1701 authors
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
— Aldous Huxley
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be,…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
— Vaclav Havel
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
— Vaclav Havel
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build…
— Vaclav Havel
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
— Noam Chomsky
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher…
— J. William Fulbright
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