Heroes Quotes
Emerson and Carlyle, who both wrote on the hero, lead the page, followed by Warren Farrell, Gordon Lightfoot and Robert Jordan. The best-known sourced line is Brecht’s, from Life of Galileo (1939): Andrea says, “Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero,” and Galileo answers, “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” Nassim Taleb, in Fooled by Randomness (2001), says heroes are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Jean Paul wrote that the grandest heroic deeds are done within four walls.
“What is a hero without love for mankind?” is credited to Doris Lessing and flagged misattributed. The notes give the real source: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Philotas (1759). The cockroach-and-butterfly line credited to Nietzsche is also misattributed.
I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he's a hero.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.
You don’t give a man the status of a hero. All you can do is recognise it. It is his.