Satyadev Kancharana Quotes

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

… from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

We need to redefine what a hero looks like.

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

Heroes aren't perfect.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.