Heroic Degree

Famous quotes containing the words heroic and/or degree:

“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind—the mind of a fighter—in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)