Quotes by Boorstin, Daniel J.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spo >>

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by >>

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. >>

Quotations about Heroes and Heroism

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest >>

They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't >>

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero >>

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Boorstin, Daniel J.