Brushes Quote by George Orwell

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

— George Orwell

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than…

— George Orwell

No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and…

— Karl Donitz

“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who…

— Audie Murphy

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

“As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

— Ryan Reynolds

“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.”

— DC Talk

“I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did…

— Philippa Gregory

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the…

— Jan Valtin

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

— Janet Morris

There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation…

— Hanan Ashrawi