Quote about heroism????

Question

does anyone know any quotes about heroism or the holocaust especially something that would describe oskar schindler

Answer 1

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Oskar Schindler

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
Oskar Schindler

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.
Benjamin Netanyahu

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Lech Walesa

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Alfred North Whitehead

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.”
Albert Einstein

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
Lise Hand

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I hope these help....

Answer 2

"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist



"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist



"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials."

Gerald W. Johnson 1890-1980, American Author

Answer 3

"Never have so few done so much for so many." Winston Churchill, referring to British pilots during WW II.

Answer 4

This is in jest:

" It is better to be a living coward than a dead hero."