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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons read more
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately read more
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I read more
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like read more
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
