Famous quotes containing the word heroes:
“... in ordinary fiction, movies, etc. everything is smoothed out to seem plausiblevillains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word of it.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized peoplethe worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarismit is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”
—George Borrow (18031881)