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“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.”

Forever Mankind Hero Worship Hero Worship

Book:Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

“Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”

Made Might Too Much Mankind Hero Tests Finals Saint Handle Latter

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.”

People Ifs Faces Certain Loses Mankind Hero Tragedy Disaster Atrocities

Author:Gao Xingjian

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”

Sometimes Mankind Hero Ambition Admiration Famine Avarice Chastisement Pestilence Stilts

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Mean Pay Risk Mankind Hero Taxes Income Saving Superhero Income Tax Save The World

Author:Stan Lee

“What is a hero without love for mankind.”

Love Mankind Hero Heroic Without Love

Author:Doris Lessing

“Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.”

Firsts Together Desire Mankind Hero Models Remains Saint Supreme This Day Sanctity

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.”

Needs Country Peace Mankind Hero Prove Ordinary Everyday Deeds Honour Warfare Everyday Life Bloodshed Valour John Smith

Author:Paul Cornell

“It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.”

“But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.”

Men Whole Feelings Courses Millions Mankind Fool Cold Hero Creatures Perception Tools Fellows Blind Dues Noble Features Exception Sentiments Warmth Permit Freak Despised

Book:Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

Source: Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse