647 Quotes About Heroes

Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.

The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives (also Abraham), cheated their brothers, seduced their in-laws, murdered, started civil wars through terrible family decisions, yet somehow-through a mixture of humility, near-insanity, and good fortune-served as conduits of God's action in the world.

He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious.

How does a boy without a father grow up to be a man? How does he learn to make the hard decisions he's going to have to make in life? The ones only a man can teach?

My children are the survivors, and heroes that for so long have lived in an encapsulated environment that has rendered them caged Supermen that were not allowed to bleed, be human, nor show their talents to their fullest extent, be Supermen in public.

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudgingly, if at all.