Catholicism Quote by Peter Kreeft

The need for heroes, to admire them, to be inspired by them, runs deep in our cultural and social make-up.

— Clive Lewis

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even…

— Mao Zedong

We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political…

— John Burnside

“doesn’t matter whether the cultural hero-system is frankly magical, religious, and primitive or secular, scientific, and civilized. It is still a mythical hero-system in…

— Ernest Becker

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only…

— Max Lerner

We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always…

— Carey Mercer

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

— William James

People need to feel like their heroes are human, not on the mat but in the world. The more people can see that, the…

— Jordan Burroughs

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and…

— Howard Schultz

I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't…

— Dustin Lance Black

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now…

— Bob Dylan

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz