Quote by Lester Bangs
They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they would

They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. – Lester Bangs

Other quotes by Lester Bangs

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Society
Read Quote

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Future
Read Quote

Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Politics
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Heroes/Heroism
category

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. – Charles Horton Cooley

Category:
Heroes/Heroism

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. – Bertolt Brecht

Category:
Heroes/Heroism

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. – Calvin Coolidge

Category:
Heroes/Heroism

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Heroes/Heroism

Random Quotes

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

Category:
Be Yourself

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. – Colette

Category:
Cats

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Writing

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. – Brad Garrett

Category:
Happiness