As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism there can be no epic with artillery.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Heroism in a bad cause.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.