There Are No Heroes Quotes

#1. There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

Peter J. Tomasi

#2. Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#3. I don't like the word "hero." There are no heroes in war. As soon as someone picks up a weapon, they can no longer be good. They won't be able to.

Svetlana Alexievich

#4. I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Alfred De Vigny

#5. You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Paul Gallico

#6. Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Ronald Reagan

#8. There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

Wael Ghonim

#9. Sir, sometimes I feel there are no heroes, no villains. Just men, ordinary men locked up by circumstances, good or bad. This I truly believe, and I suggest that you believe it too.

Terry Pratchett

#10. There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Naguib Mahfouz

#11. There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler's List variety, but there are glimmers of heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace.

Erik Larson

#12. There are no heroes in chess.

Corry Evans

#13. There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#14. I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We

Brandon Sanderson

#15. I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

Orhan Pamuk

#16. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.

Rachel Bach

#17. There are no heroes in our world. No clear-cut evil either. Everyone involved insists that they're the righteous ones.

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#18. Heroes are more than just stories, they're people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there's always something in them that'll turn sour... you'll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

Joel Cornah

#19. There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

George R R Martin

#20. There are no heroes in a world where heroes can't die.

Travis Beacham

#21. The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.

David Wong

#22. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

#23. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca

Stuart M. Kaminsky

#24. I see there are no heroes any more. Where is my head of Joseph Kony on a plate? Slice him thinly so there's enough to go around.

Neal Stephenson

#25. A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Cass McCombs

#26. But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.

George R R Martin

#27. There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.

Tommy Mottola

#28. Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

Tom Hiddleston

#29. DEDICATION To you out there mistreated for being you, for loving. To you who are daring and hopeful and courageous when there's no reason on earth you should still be. You're my heroes. And I love you. This is for you.

Kade Boehme

#30. After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.

Stephen King

#31. There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

Robert Longo

#32. One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Tom Stoppard

#33. I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no memorials to heroes, no gravestones, no paper and no ink.

J.M. McDermott

#34. He says there are many ways to die and some are less pleasant than others. He says I am lucky I will never have to know things like this. "This country has no heroes," he says. "You should keep it that way.

Margaret Atwood

#35. There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were

Nina Simone

#36. Because soldiers aren't really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They're not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story.

Chris Priestley

#37. Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.

Brian Herbert