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heroic
«One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
admirable, Christianized, families, features, fiber, fibers, fulfil, Happy Family, heroic, Marriages, myth, normal family, oddest, stable, The Myth, Western
«In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions»
Author: Nathaniel Branden
| About:
Belief,
Culture,
Family,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
conformity, exceptions, family values, heroic, self-expression, self esteem, subculture, valued
«Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
| About:
Myths,
Truth
| Keywords:
comprehend, creeds, heroic, myths, struggles
«Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
admiration, enforce, genuflection, heroic, honoring, masculinity, outlawed, outlawing, outlaws, police, proven, recognition, rewarded, sphere, standards, The Outlaw, The Practice, violate, virtually
«I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.»
«One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
bores, everlasting, fashionable, heroic, stylish
«I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and York»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
at hand, bunker, Bunker Hill, civil war, Cowpens, declare, declared war, declare war, descendant, descendants, heroic, hill, Lexington, The Civil War, The Descendants
«Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
heroes, heroic, nurture
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Conscience,
Fidelity,
Heroism,
Labor,
Peace,
Purity,
Sacrifice,
Truth,
War
| Keywords:
fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity
«Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
abandoned, Age to Age, heroic, modified, religious truth, statement, traditional