"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
"Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded."
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Source: Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company
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