“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
Edward Gibbon
“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
David C. McCullough
“Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.”
Oscar Wilde
“Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.”
Stanley Kunitz
“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
Frank Miller
“The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.”
Albert Einstein
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes”
Benjamin Disraeli
