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“Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism—how I hate them!” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“no man's a hero to himself.” Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I...” Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
“I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“you can be excused just about anything if you’re a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she should have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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