False Heroism Quotes

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond, the girl who waited for me. I’m not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And it’s time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, it’s time to stop waiting.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.