“Already, they have begun to do to Gandhi what has been done to Jesus—worship him as an unobtainable ideal. That is the sin of men of goodwill—not really to believe in their own power.”— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com
“I had both male and female heroes. One was a high school science teacher who was very important in encouraging me to pursue science. Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. And the early astronauts, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, were heroes of mine as well.”— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com
“I'm no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else.”— Lizzie Molyneux, Wendy Molyneux, Tina Belcher, Dan Mintz, imdb.com
“not even being flip here; hero culture is generally bad. i always say, it's better to have guides than heroes. guides take your hand and show you new imaginaries and ways to live. heroes become statues. there's a difference.”— rachel syme, twitter.com
“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can”— Philip Zimbardo, goodreads.com
“This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.”— Yasser Arafat, jeffreygoldberg.net
“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”— Tom Robbins, amazon.com
“THE INNOCENT THE ORPHAN THE WARRIOR THE CAREGIVER THE SEEKER THE LOVER THE DESTROYER THE CREATOR THE RULER THE MAGICIAN THE SAGE THE FOOL OR JESTER”— Center for Archetypal Studies and Applications, uiltexas.org
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.”— Bono, books.google.com.ph
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”— Brad Meltzer, goodreads.com
“Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it--those are the real heroes.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”— Noam Chomsky, davidcogswell.com