#heroism

One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm. ↗

— George Orwell

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Hate did not give way to heroism. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #hate #heroism #young-adult

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to realize they'd alienated the entire world. ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. ↗

— George Carlin

#hero #heroism #individualism #individuality #nature

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. ↗

— Joseph Heller

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