Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Context: The concept of hero is antagonistic to impersonal social progress, to the belief that social ills can be solved by social legislating, for it sees a country as all-but-trapped in its character until it has a hero who reveals the character of the country to itself.
The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
20 February 2019 https://maps.southfront.org/philip-giraldi-the-growing-anti-semitism-scam/ Stephan Williams of SouthFront attributed this to Tesla, however it was Albert Einstein who wrote that, not Tesla
Misattributed
“A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.”
As quoted in Struggle : The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd (1928) by Charles John Vincent Murphy, p. 325
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.
"Busybody," review of Silkwood (1984-01-09), p. 107.
State of the Art (1985)
“There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.”
Oft repeated: see John Campbell "Nye Bevan" (Richard Cohen Books, 1997)
1950s
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Purpose of the Book
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 60
