Jean Anouilh A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. Philip K. Dick A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician.
Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty.
Andrea Dworkin Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go. We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.