{"quotes":[{"text":"Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot!","author":"T.A. Cline","tags":["courage","courageous","goodness","hero","heroes","honor","virtue"],"id":3316,"author_id":"T.A.+Cline"},{"text":"Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["endure","heroes","jem-carstairs"],"id":3532,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"And you,You can be meanAnd I,I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers,And that is a factYes we're lovers,And that is that.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["bowie","heroes","love"],"id":4403,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.","author":"Dylan O'Brien","tags":["heroes","easy","saying "],"id":5769,"author_id":"Dylan+O%27Brien"},{"text":"Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from them the applause of the populace and discourage the spread of them, make them once more the concealed chastities of solitary souls, and say: morality is something forbidden! Perhaps you will thus attract to your cause the sort of men who are only of any account, I mean the heroic. But then there must be something formidable in it, and not as hitherto something disgusting!","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["heroes","morality","populace","race"],"id":5772,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"There’s no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point. In 1852 slavery had not been abolished. Slaves were still on the plantations and many of them were in the hands of people like Legree. Her book was written to shame the collective conscience of America into action against an atrocity which was still continuing. So a happy ending would have been, frankly, a lie and a betrayal. ...Most of the charges are basically true. Stowe did stereotype. She did sentimentalize. She offered a role model which later offended African American pride. On the other hand, what she did worked. She wasn’t trying to provide a role model for African Americans. She was trying to make white Americans ashamed of themselves. ...Perhaps the short answer to her critics is to ask, “Do you want glory, approval, all those good things? Or do you want to achieve your goal?","author":"Thomas A. Shippey","tags":["harriet-beecher-stowe","heroes","thomas-a-shippey","uncle-tom-s-cabin"],"id":6360,"author_id":"Thomas+A.+Shippey"},{"text":"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["action","books","deeds","heroes","ruin","sentiment","soul"],"id":6724,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"You have heroes? No? What kind of feeling exist in you?","author":"Da Anunciação Marco","tags":["heroes","inspirational","nonfiction","psichology"],"id":8255,"author_id":"Da+Anuncia%C3%A7%C3%A3o+Marco"},{"text":"Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["future","hero","heroes","heroism","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","work"],"id":8280,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...Truth and courage prevail and the youngest and most neglected son of the family, of the nation, of mankind, chops off all twelve heads of the Dragon, to the delight of our anxious hearts. This exultant victory, towards which the hero of the tale always strives, is the hope and trust of the peasantry and of all oppressed peoples. This hope helps them bear the burden of their destiny.","author":"Gyula Illyés","tags":["folk-tales","heroes","hungarian","story-telling","victory"],"id":9984,"author_id":"Gyula+Illy%C3%A9s"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":529,"pages":53,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}