Mohsin Hamid Quotes

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

"Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?" "He looked pretty pleased to me," I said. "Like he'd spent a nice day torturing heroes." "That's not true! There was something wrong with him. He looked... nervous. He told his monsters to spare me. He wanted to tell me something." "Probably, 'Hi, Annabeth! Sit here with me and watch while I tear your friends apart. It'll be fun!"

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.

There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.