Heroism Quote by Marya Mannes

“You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.” quote by Marya Mannes — Download Open image

“You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.”

Marya Mannes

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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

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The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings…

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“Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.”

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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it…

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“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.”

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There was no heroism in 'Manichitrathazhu' but there will be heroism in 'Chandramukhi.'

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