Quotes with anti-hero

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  • Bertolt Brecht Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
    Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.
    Source: Life of Galileo Scene 12, p. 115
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Pat Buchanan Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Doug Horton Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Will Rogers Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Benedict Wong Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Boris Johnson But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
    Source: Quotes of the Day, The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Henry Newman Calculation never made a hero.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Samuel Johnson Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Morgan Freeman Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
    Morgan Freeman
    American actor, producer and narrator (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Every bachelor is a hero to some married woman.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Billy Gardell Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Anita Brookner Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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