„War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.“
— Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951
Fonte: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 2.
„Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?“
— Alphonse Daudet, livro Tartarin of Tarascon
Où serait le mérite, si les héros n’avaient jamais peur?
Fonte: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 204; translation p. 80.
Original
Où serait le mérite, si les héros n’avaient jamais peur?
Tartarin de Tarascon (1872)
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„… where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?“
— China Miéville, livro Un Lun Dun
Fonte: Un Lun Dun
— Miep Gies Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank 1909 - 2010
Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100 http://web.archive.org/web/20100113212438/news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_obit_miep_gies (January 12, 2010)
— Gore Vidal American writer 1925 - 2012
The Times Online http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece, (30 September 2009)
2000s
— John Kenneth Galbraith American economist and diplomat 1908 - 2006
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 12, p. 328
— Ian Smith Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1919 - 2007
BBC News 'On this day' http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/1/newsid_2492000/2492915.stm, June 1.
On the end of white minority rule in 1979.
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
"Germinal" in Vale and Other Poems (1931)
— Anatol Rapoport Russian-born American mathematical psychologist 1911 - 2007
Anatol Rapoport (1988), quoted in: William Poundstone (2011) Prisoner's Dilemma. p. 203
1970s and later
„Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.“
— Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975
Fonte: Steelheart
— Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965
From interview with David Light
„America was the land where people still believed in heroes.“
— Norman Mailer American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate 1923 - 2007
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Contexto: America was the country in which the dynamic myth of the Renaissance — that every man was potentially extraordinary — knew its most passionate persistence. Simply, America was the land where people still believed in heroes.
„Never run against a war hero.“
— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965
Response when asked if he had any advice to give to a young politician, quoted in "History Remembers…Adlai Stevenson" by Maureen Zebian in The Epoch Times (4 November 2004) http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-11-4/24153.html
— Christopher Walken American actor 1943
Hap Erstein (October 29, 2004) "Walken Doesn't Mind Playing Creepy Type - As Long As He's Cast", The Palm Beach Post, p. 9.
„If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.“
— Cassandra Clare American author 1973
Fonte: What Really Happened in Peru
„Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
Statement about World War II (written in 1943), p. 77
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
