Hero Quotes

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. — Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. — Henry David Thoreau
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? — Aldous Huxley
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.
All great men are play actors of their own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg
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
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
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
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. — Vaclav Havel
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. — Vaclav Havel
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
... 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
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
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
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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