“Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.” — Linda Robinson Copy Share Image
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship… — Mark Emmert Copy Share Image
“They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Thing is, what does a hero look like these days? Muscles and lycra? Life isn’t a contest of strength anymore. Jobs, banks,… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“For hero-worship often defeats its own ends; the boy who "cannot tell a lie," the boy who kept his finger in the… — Leon Ma. Guerrero Copy Share Image
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
“For River to discover himself in Rimbaud's life and Miller's prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in… — Gavin Edwards Copy Share Image
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship,… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Especially to be avoided is approaching Kant's life in a spirit of hero worship or hagiography -- as though our interest in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
