Degenerates Quote by Mario Puzo

“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling,…

— Michael Chabon

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's…

— Jean Giraudoux

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions…

— Iain M. Banks

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open…

— Barack Obama

He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never…

— Frederic Tudor

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess,…

— Jack London

He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth…

— Lex Lasry

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of…

— David Grann

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was…

— Henry Miller

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.…

— Winston Churchill

A hero is a man who does what he can.

— Romain Rolland