Modern-writers Quote by Flannery O'Connor

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about…

— Twyla Tharp

“...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY HAVE TO…

— FILM CRIT HULK

“There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.”

— Toba Beta

“He’s the type of person who loves the idea of being an outsider because he thinks by not belonging it makes him superior in…

— Lisa O'Donnell

“If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more…

— Jim Rogers

“He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot…

— Al Masudi

“The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly,…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Ordinary people can be heroes too,' he said, 'if they want to be.”

— Judy Croome

“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings…

— George Eliot

“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort…

— Hilary Mantel

“...The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable of giving…

— Janvier Chando